. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. fancy. His surviving son,David, went out as a cadet to India in also left a daughter named Barbara.—BrowrCiScenery edition of the Gentle Shepherd, appendix. ALLAN, Robert, a minor poet, some of whoseIjTics and songs have long been popular in Scot-land, was born at Kilbarchan, in Renfrewshire,4th November, 1774. He was a handloom weaver,and all his life in humble circumstances. To re-lieve the tedium of his occupation he occasionallyhad recourse to poetry. In 1836,
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. fancy. His surviving son,David, went out as a cadet to India in also left a daughter named Barbara.—BrowrCiScenery edition of the Gentle Shepherd, appendix. ALLAN, Robert, a minor poet, some of whoseIjTics and songs have long been popular in Scot-land, was born at Kilbarchan, in Renfrewshire,4th November, 1774. He was a handloom weaver,and all his life in humble circumstances. To re-lieve the tedium of his occupation he occasionallyhad recourse to poetry. In 1836, a volume of hispoems was published by subscription, but made nogreat impression. The principal poem in the vol-ume, entitled An Addiess to the Robin, is writ-ten in the Scottish dialect. His most popularpieces are The bonny built wheriy; The Cove-nanters Lament; Womans wark will neer badune; Hand awa frae me, Donald; and the bal-lad O speed, Lord Nithsdale. He had a nume-rous family, all of whom were married except hisyoungest son, a portrait painter of gi-eat promise,who emigiated to the United States. Desirous of. /Tc^iyCo^^-^^i^ C€^/:^c(. SIK AJiUlu-toaicGfLoDdaaldJdiDtnirgl) 7 ALLAN, 117 SIR WILLIAM. joining liis son, Allan sailed for New York, wherelie arrived 1st June 1841, but died there on the7th, six days after his arrival, from the effects of acold caught on the banks of Newfoundland. Heis represented as having been a most single-heartedand unaffected being, and much of the simplicitjof his character is reflected in his poems. ALLAN, Siu William, an eminent historicalpainter, was born at Edinburgh, in 1782, of humbleparentage, his father beiug one of the doorkeepersof the Com-t of Exchequer. He was educated partlyat the High School of his native city, under WilliamNicol, the friend of Burns, and served his appren-ticeship to a coach-painter, George Sanders thecelebrated miniature-painter being in the sameemplojTiient. All his spare hours were dev
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