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Alexander Selkirk was the son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, born in 1676. [3] In his youth, he displayed a quarrelsome and unruly disposition. He was summoned before the Kirk Session in August 1693 [4] for his "indecent conduct in church", but he "did not appear, being gone to sea".
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk; Poems (see also Poems 1815) [1] John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects [1] William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason [1] William Mason: An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles ...
Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) Alexander Scott (20th-century poet) Tom Scott; Walter Scott; Sir William Scott of Thirlestane; William Bell Scott; Thomas Seget; J. B. Selkirk; James Sempill; Robert Sempill the elder; Robert Sempill the younger; Robert W. Service; John Campbell Shairp; William Sharp; Nan Shepherd; David Sillar; Burns Singer ...
September 19 – Richard Lower, English dialect poet (died 1865) unknown dates. Alexander Jamieson, Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (died 1850) [8] Grace Kennedy, Scottish novelist (died 1825) Benjamin Thorpe, English scholar of Anglo-Saxon (died 1870)
James Brown (J. B. Selkirk) (1832 – 25 December 1904) was a Scottish poet and essayist. Greatly admired by other great writers including Tennyson. J. B. Selkirk was a distinguished poet and man of letters. His real name was actually James Brown. His would sign his works 'J. B. Selkirk (i.e. James Brown of Selkirk). He soon become better known ...
Defoe worked as a journalist during and after its composition, and therefore he encountered the memoirs of Alexander Selkirk, who had been stranded in South America on an island for some years. Defoe took aspects of the actual life and, from that, generated a fictional life, satisfying an essentially journalistic market with his fiction (Hunter ...
Alexander Selkirk; Francis Sempill (Jacobite) Robert Sempill (Jacobite) David Sillar; Alexander Silver; Robert Simson; William Skirving; James Small (inventor) William St Clair of Roslin; James Stewart of the Glen; John Stewart (Wigtownshire MP, died 1769) James Stirling (mathematician) Edmund Stone; Elizabeth Lyon, Countess of Strathmore ...
Cinque Ports was an English ship whose sailing master was Alexander Selkirk, [1] generally accepted as a model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe. [2] The ship was part of a 1703 expedition commanded by William Dampier, who captained the accompanying ship, the 26-gun St George with a complement of 120 men.