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NICOLL, ROBERT (1814-1837) , Scottish poet, was born on the 7th of January, 1814, at the farm of Little Tullybeltane, in the parish of Auchtergaven, Perthshire. When Robert was five years old his father was reduced to poverty. He became a day-labourer, and was only able to give his son a very slight education. At sixteen the boy was apprenticed to a grocer and wine-merchant at Perth
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apprenticeship was cancelled. He visited Edinburgh, and was kindly received there, but obtained no employment. He opened a circulating library at Dundee, but in 1836 he became editor of the Leeds Times. He held pronounced Radical opinions, and overtaxed his slender physical
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An eloquent appreciation of his character and his poetry was included in Charles Kingsley's article on " Burns and his School " in the North British Review for November 1851. See also P. R. Drummond, Life of Robert Nicoll, Poet (1884).End of Article: NICOLL, ROBERT (1814-1837) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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