John M'Naught

(1733 c.-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: M'Naught, John, d. 1808 LBT ID: JoMNaugh1808 VIAF ID: 72798271 LOC ID: n84136325	B/BAP: 1733 DIED: 1808
SOURCES: Scots Magazine (July 1779) 400; Scots Magazine (June 1793) 302; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish clergyman; he was minister of Balmaclellan in Kirkcudbright (1779), and afterwards of Girthon (ejected 1793). Lockhart gets the date of his trial wrong in the first edition of the Life of Scott.
REFERENCES TO John M'Naught: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 4: ¶ 35 ¶ 42 ¶ 43 ¶ 44 Vol VII Preface Found 1: ¶ 2