Like ourselves he is an aberdonian, being a member of the Hamilton family of Skene House.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson
A raw-boned aberdonian on the train remarks on the resemblance of the landscape to that of his own country and is flatly contradicted by an American sitting beside him, who, however, owns that he has never been there!
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
Divine abodes shall own his power, When time and death shall be no more;'- Oldmixon, one of the heroes of the 'Dunciad,' famous in his day as a party historian;-Richard West, a youth of high promise, the friend of Gray, and who died in his twenty-sixth year;-James Eyre Weekes, an Irishman, author of a clever copy of love verses, called 'The Five Traitors;'-Bramston, an Oxford man, who wrote a poem called 'The Man of Taste;'-and William Meston, an aberdonian, author of a set of burlesque poems entitled 'Mother Grim's Tales.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan