Thomas Aird

(1802-1876)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Aird, Thomas, 1802-1876 NRA: Aird Thomas (1802-1876) poet DNB: Aird, Thomas (1802–1876), poet LBT ID: ThAird1876 VIAF ID: 5313288 LOC ID: n82094414	B/BAP: 1802-08-28 DIED: 1876-04-25
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Scottish poet educated at Edinburgh University; he was a friend of James Hogg and John Wilson, published in Blackwood's, and edited the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Herald.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Aird: John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 15 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43 Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter 20: 1826-52