Grahame

Grahame, James (1765-1811), a Scottish poet, was born at Glasgow. He was educated at the university there, and studied for the Bar, but in 1795 he took orders in the Church of England, and became curate, first in Gloucestershire, then in Durham. His chief works are Mary Queen of Scots, Sabbath, British Georgics, Birds of Scotland, and Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade.