John Marjoribanks

(d. 1797 c.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Marjoribanks, J. (John), d. 1797? LBT ID: JoMarjo1797 VIAF ID: 46320174 LOC ID: no90010235	DIED: 1797
SOURCES: William Shillinglaw Crockett, Minstrelsy of the Merse: the Poets and Poetry of Berwickshire (1893) 128; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish poet who in 1792 described himself as “formerly lieutenant in His Majesty’s 19th Regiment of Foot”; he served in Jamaica. A volume of his posthumous poems was published in Edinburgh in 1798.
REFERENCES TO John Marjoribanks: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ 26