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and for a number of years it served as a 'Ragged School' where children were taught a trade if they came from destitute or neglected backgrounds. After the school moved to other premises the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary directors restored the house as a memorial to Robert Burns and from 25 January 1935 it was opened to the public. Jean Armour Burns Brown, William's great-niece, performed the opening ceremony.
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After William had completed his education at Christ's Hospital he sailed as a midshipman aged 16 to India. The Marchioness of Hastings assisted William's career. Appointed in 1811 to the Army of the East India Company, William rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the 7th Madras Native Infantry.
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In 1851 William purchased the family's last home in Millhole Street, later Burns Street, Dumfries in order to ensure the survival of the house in which his father had died and the Burns family had resided. In 1858 William placed the house in the care of the Dumfries and Maxwellton Education Society
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to the 'Stinking Vennel' in Dumfries on 11 November 1791. In late spring 1793 they made the move to a larger house in Millhole Brae (now Burns Street), where William's mother lived for the remainder of her life following his father's death in 1796. Nine days previous to William's birth an
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and explained why he had called his son after the Edinburgh schoolmaster William Nicol, "from that propensity to witty wickedness and manfu' mischief, which even at twa days auld I foresaw would form the striking feature of his disposition." Thomson had commissioned the artist
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In 1818 James Glencairn he was promoted to the Indian Commissariat and was able to assist his mother to the tune of £150 per year that was a very welcome assistance. Eventually he was unable to afford this and William took over and gave the same sum per annum.
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William Nicol, Burns's friend, took part in an open competition for the post of Classics teacher at the High School in Edinburgh and was successful. He earned a reputation as an excellent scholar, but a very harsh disciplinarian. In his
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Colonel. This was a warrant that gave a commissioned officer a higher rank, as a reward for meritorious conduct or gallantry, but may not necessarily confer the precedence, authority, or pay of the real rank.
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Robert Burns junior, together with his brothers William Nicol and James Glencairn, was made an Honorary Member of the Lodge St James on 9 August 1844 at a meeting held in the old Cross Keys Inn at
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commented on Nicol's "constant and indiscriminate harshness" that was "very hurtful to all his pupils". However an Edinburgh lawyer and writer to the signet, Alexander Young of
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in Ayrshire, the son of John Shaw, whose family had farmed the area of Mosshead for over 300 years. Shaw was a nephew of Gilbert through his wife Jean Breckenridge.
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at which there were twenty-three toasts and fifteen replies. He spoke at several other events that year in commemoration of the centenary of his father's birth.
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William Nicol died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 21 February 1872 and was buried in the Burns Mausoleum in the churchyard of St Michael's in
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that his new son, William, was "a fine boy, rather stouter but not so handsome as your God-son at his time of life was. Indeed I look on your
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On 15 August 1844 William Nicol and his brother James Glencairn were entertained in the Kings Arms Hotel, High Street, Irvine by the
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on 9 April 1791, between 3am and 4am as recorded in the family register in the Burns family Bible. The family later moved from
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Westwood, Peter J. (1996). Jean Armour, Mrs Robert Burns: An illustrated Biography. Dumfries: Creedon Publications.
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On 6 August 1844 a 'Burns Festival' attended by around 80,000 people took place at Ayr and the Burns Monument at
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In 1859 William gave the reply to the 'Immortal Memory' at the Centenary Banquet held in the City Hall in
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Retiring in 1843 after 33 years service, William moved from India and lived at 3 Berkely Street,
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The Marchioness of Hastings and Sir John Reid also assisted James's career. William entered the
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wrote that Nicol was "worthless, drunken and inhumanly cruel to the boys under his charge".
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Hunter's Illustrated History of the Family, Friends and Contemporaries of Robert Burns.
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William Nicol married Catherine Adelaide Crone, daughter of R.Crone, Esq of Dublin, in
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in attendance, the three surviving sons of the poet, together with their aunt
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to be my chief d'oeuvre in that species of manufacture, as I look on "
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and James's daughters Annie and Sarah. In 1855 William was appointed
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to William Nicol Burns and in due course he bequeathed it to the
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Purdie, David; McCue Kirsteen and Carruthers, Gerrard. (2013).
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in 1791. His first and middle name was added in honour of
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Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice
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The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid
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The Definitive Illustrated Companion to Robert Burns.
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McQueen, Colin Hunter & Hunter, Douglas (2008).
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Index


Dumfries
Nithsdale
Cheltenham
Robert Burns
Jean Armour
Robert Burns
Jean Armour
Ellisland Farm
Dunscore
Dumfries
William Nicol
Ellisland Farm
Nithsdale
Ellisland Farm
Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns
Ann Park

George Thomson
David Allan
The Cotter's Saturday Night

Robert Burns Junior
James Glencairn
Elizabeth Riddell
Francis Wallace
Frances Dunlop
little Namesake
Tam o' Shanter
Alexander Nasmyth

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