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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
The chair was presented to the Trust by William Cowan of Maybole.
The chair on display of the kitchen in the Poet's birthplace in Alloway belonged to his father William Burnes. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1757-01-01 - 1759-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Chair (wooden armchair) which belonged t | Go to resource |
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