THE POET-LAUREATE OF THE JACOBITE ARMY.
William Hamilton, of Bangour, came of an ancient Ayrshire family, and was born in the year 17W. In 1745 he joined the Standard of Prince Charles Edward, and was recognised as Poet-Laureate of the Jacobite array. When the cause of the Stuarts was hopelessly lost, Hamilton escaped into France; but on obtaining a pardon through the aid of powerful frie ids, he returned [to the eiijoyment of his paternal estate. Failing health compelled him to go abroad, however, and lie died of consumption at Lyons on the 25th of March, 1751. His body was brought to Scotland, and interred in the Abbey Church of Holyrood. He was twice married, on each occasion into a family of distinction. Ot' all his poems, the beautiful and pathetic " Braea of Yarrow " is incomparably the finest, and it is almost worthy of ranking with the noblest of our ballads. The impression which this ballad made upon Wordsworth was deep and lasting, and to it we owe three of his own poems.—From Illustrated British Ballads,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1502, 24 October 1885, Page 3
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