Author: Macgilvray, John
Biography:
MACGILVRAY, John (b 1754: findmypast.com)
His only known publication, Poems (1787), identifies Macgilvray as a Scot despite his professional standing as “A.M., Master of the Grammar School at Lestwithiel”—that is, at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. Several poems are on explicitly Scottish themes: the Grampian mountains, the “Caledonian Spring,” an elegy for “Donald M’Lean, Esq., of Coll.” He was most probably the child of this name born on 5 Mar. 1754 and baptised at Croy and Dalcross, Invernessshire, on 11 Apr., son of Margaret Stuart and Farquhar Macgilvray, He certainly graduated from King’s College, Aberdeen (MA 1770). He became a schoolmaster in Cornwall, but no further information has been discovered and the time and place of his death are not known. (findmypast.com 6 Feb. 2023; Peter John Anderson, ed., Studies in the History . . . of the University of Aberdeen [1906], 340)