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Description: | Gilbert Burns was the brother of Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet and was born in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally.
It is interesting to note that the label was written by Gilbert Burns (1803-1881), the Poets' nephew, and is in inscribed ' Knockmaroon Lodge, near Dublin, 1874.'
The leather tawse has an attached label indicating that it formerly belonged to Burns' mother and was seldom if ever used, according to the Poet's tutor John Murdoch, Ayr. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1750-01-01 - 1770-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Leather Tawse with label by Gilbert Burn | Go to resource |
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