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Author: Forbes, Peter

Biography:

Forbes, Peter (b 1762?: ancestry.co.uk)

His book includes a ten-page list of subscribers and shows seven copies going to the Duchess of Buccleuch. If he was born in Dalkeith, he was likely the son of George and Marion (Johnston) Forbes. Several poems celebrate Burns; one identifies him as the librarian to the Dalkeith Subscription Library. “Lang Syne” lists the various places where he served as gardener in both Scotland and England and says that he was first apprenticed to a shoemaker. (ancestry.co.uk 20 June 2019)

 

Books written (1):

Edinburgh/ Dalkeith: for the author, J. Anderson and A. Black/ P. Lyle and A. Duncan, 1812