Author: Barbour, John Gordon
Biography:
BARBOUR, John Gordon (fl 1824-36)
pseudonym Cincinnatus Caledonius
He was born at Bogue, Dumfriesshire, a place strongly associated with the Barbour family, on 10 Jan. 1775. In his preface to Lights and Shadows of Scottish Character and Scenery (1824), he claims descent from Covenanters. His letters to Walter Scott (q.v.; letters dated from 1820-1830) are in the NLS; Barbour asked Scott to intercede for him with Cadell or Blackwood to have his book published. He married Jean Wilson (d 1869) and they had at least one daughter, Margaret, who died in 1842 and is buried with her parents in Dalry parish churchyard, Dumfries and Galloway. He died on 12 Feb. 1843. Other works are: Queries Associated with Christianity (Edinburgh, 1824) (published as by Cincinnatus Caledonius), Tributes to Scottish Genius (Dumfries, 1827), Unique Traditions, chiefly connected with the West and South of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1833), and Dialogues of the Dead, chiefly of the Moderns (Edinburgh, 1836). (Letters to Scott, NLS; Millgate; ancestry.co.uk 30 May 2025) SR
Other Names:
- G. Barbour