Author: Barbour, John Gordon
Biography:
BARBOUR, John Gordon (fl 1824-36)
pseudonym Cincinnatus Caledonius
He lived at Bogue, Dumfriesshire, a place strongly associated with the Barbour family, but there is little reliable biographical information. 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. 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) SR
Other Names:
- G. Barbour