William Dunbar

(1460 c.-1513 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520? NRA: Dunbar, William (? 1460-? 1513) Poet DNB: Dunbar, William (1460?-1513x30), poet and courtier LBT ID: WiDunba1513 VIAF ID: 14778799 LOC ID: n78079496	B/BAP: 1460
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish poet and courtier, the author of “The Goldyn Targe” and “Lament for the Makaris”; the date of his death is not known.
REFERENCES TO William Dunbar: Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 8 December 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 21 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 1: ¶ 25 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 1: ¶ 28 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 1: Critical Glances Found 1: ¶ 5