John Hepburn

(1770 c.-1823)

LBT ID: JoHepbu1823 VIAF ID: 72444302	B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1823
SOURCES: John Martine, Reminiscences of the Royal Burgh of Haddington and old East Lothian (1883) 389-97; Virtual International Authority File
Scottish landowner of Bearford in Haddington; educated at Edinburgh University, he adopted radical views in the 1790s and was acquainted with Horne Tooke and William Godwin.
REFERENCES TO John Hepburn: C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 3: ¶ 13 ¶ 17 ¶ 19