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Author: Fisher, James

Biography:

Fisher James (b c. 1759: The Contemporaries of Burns)

Having lost his sight in infancy due to an attack of smallpox, he was known as “the blind musician.” James Patterson (see below) says he was born somewhere in Galloway in about 1759 and then moved to Ochiltree, but possibly he was the James Fisher that ancestry.co.uk shows as born in Ochiltree in 1756 (father’s name James Fisher). He left Ochiltree for the Scottish Borders in about 1809, and the date of his death is unknown. He wrote two prose works: A Spring Day (1806) and A Winter Season (1810). (James Patterson, ed., The Contemporaries of Burns [1840] 134-42; ancestry.co.uk 6 Dec. 2018)

 

Books written (4):

Dumfries: printed for the author by Robert Jackson, 1790
2nd edn. Dumfries: Printed for the Author by Robert Jackson, 1792
Derby: printed for the author by W. and W. Pike, 1824