James Logie Robertson was a literary scholar, editor and author, who also wrote under the pen name Hugh Haliburton. He was born in Milnathort

Milnathort

Milnathort is a small village in the Perth & Kinross region of central Scotland.The smaller neighbour of nearby Kinross, Milnathort has a small population of roughly 1000 people. It is situated amidst picturesque countryside at the foot of the Ochil Hills, and near the north shore of Loch Leven...

, Kinross-shire

Kinross-shire

Kinross-shire or the County of Kinross is a registration county, electoral ward and historic county in the Perth and Kinross council area in the east central Lowlands of Scotland...

 in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University

University of Edinburgh

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. He began his teaching career as assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College. He joined the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876 and stayed there until 1913. His writings include English text-books, essays and poetry.

Works

• Poems (1878)
• Orellana and Other Poems (1881)
• New songs of innocence (1889)
• Our Holiday Among The Hills (1882) together with Janet Logie Robertson
• Ochil Idylls and Other Poems, (1891) (as Hugh Haliburton)
• Horace in Homespun (1900) (as Hugh Haliburton)
• The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson (1908) (editor)
• Petition to the Deil: And Other War Verses (1917)

External links

English Poetry Full-Text Database - R