Author: Couper, Robert
Biography:
COUPER, Robert (1750-1818: ODNB)
Physician, novelist, poet. He was born at Sorbie, Wigtownshire, and in 1769 he entered the University of Glasgow intending to study divinity. However, with the death of his parents, he went to Virginia where he worked as a tutor before returning to Scotland in 1776. He studied medicine, qualifying as MD in 1782 and moving first to Newton-Stewart and then to Fochabers. He married a Miss Stott. He also wrote on medicine and on history, and published one novel, The Tourifications of Malachi Meldrum, Esq. of Meldrum Hall (1803). There are two versions of Poetry Chiefly in the Scottish Language, one published at Inverness and one published at Edinburgh by Archibald Constable. (SM; ODNB 5 June 2018)
Books written (2):
Inverness/ London: printed by J. Young/ Vernor and Hood, 1804
London/ Edinburgh: Vernor and Hood/ A. Constable and Co., 1804