A beautiful warm summer's day
James Hogg - The Ettrick Shepherd
James Hogg is The Borders equivalent of Robert Burns. He wrote a considerable number of poems about life in The Borders that gained a widespread readership.
His mother was Margaret Laidlaw before she married Will O'the Whaup an Ettrick sheherd.
James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood's Magazine. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Reliques (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823)
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He was born in Ettrick Village near the school and the church. There is a statue there to commemorate him
There is a much larger monument celebrating his achievements overlooking St. Mary's Loch nearby
Here is the Loch with Tibbie Shiels Inn that he frequented
All in all a very busy, tiring day...It was lovely to spend time with Hillary and Gordon who we stayed with in 2014, and who were so helpful and who went out of their way to make the day enjoyable
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