Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
	Portrait pentit in 1722; by William Aikman (1682–1731)
Born	15 October 1686; Leidhills, Lanrikshire, Scotland
Dee'd	7 Januar 1758 (aged 71)
Thrift	poet
Naitionality	Scots

Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686 – 7 Januar 1758) wis a Scots poet (or makar), playwricht, publisher, leebrarian, an impresario o early Enlichtenment Edinburgh.

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↑ Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:
Here painted on this canvas clout
by Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1]

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[1] Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:
Here painted on this canvas clout
by Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1]

[1]

v t e Scots makars
c. 1370 – c. 1460	John Barbour Huchoun James I Sir Gilbert Hay Andrew o Wyntoun Richard Holland
c. 1460 – c. 1560	Blind Hary Robert Henryson Walter Kennedy William Dunbar Gavin Douglas David Lyndsay Richard Maitland John Stewart o Baldynneis William Stewart
c. 1560 – 17t century	Alexander Scott Alexander Montgomerie James VI Castalian Band William Fowler Elizabeth Melville Alexander Hume Robert Sempill Robert Sempill the younger Francis Sempill William Drummond
18t century – 20t century	Allan Ramsay Robert Fergusson Robert Burns Robert Louis Stevenson Alicia Ann Spottiswoode William Soutar Robert Garioch Sydney Goodsir Smith Tom Scott George Campbell Hay Alexander Scott Hamish Henderson William Neill
Official appointment (frae 2004)	Edwin Morgan Liz Lochhead Jackie Kay

Allan Ramsay

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Allan Ramsay
Portrait pentit in 1722 by William Aikman (1682–1731)^[1]
Born	15 October 1686(1686-10-15) Leidhills, Lanrikshire, Scotland
Dee'd	7 Januar 1758(1758-01-07) (aged 71)
Thrift	poet
Naitionality	Scots