Gavin Hamilton (lawyer)
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Gavin Hamilton was a Scottish lawyer and one of Robert Burns's closest friends and a patron. The first 'Kilmarnock Edition' of his poems were dedicated to Gavin Hamilton.
Gavin Hamilton's memorial stone
The Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Statue of Jean Armour at Mauchline.
Mossgiel Farm, Mauchline
Jean Armour
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Jean Armour, also known as the "Belle of Mauchline", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood.
Gavin Hamilton (lawyer)
…solicitors clerk, who had once worked for Gavin Hamilton and would later become a lawyer in Mauchline himself. Burns wrote revealingly to Hamilton about Jean Armour during his stay in Edinburgh saying "To tell the truth among friends, I feel a miserable blank in my heart, with want of her, and I don't think I shall…
Jean Armour, painted by John Alexander Gilfillan, in 1822
Statue of Jean Armour in Dumfries
Robert Burns
James Glencairn Burns