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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 pistols which are on display in Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway were donated in Dec. 1977 by Mr. W.H. Fleming, Potgietersrus, South Africa.
These duelling pistols belonged to the Poet and were given to his physician Dr. William Maxwell (1760-1834) while Burns was on his deathbed in July 1796. The Poet's widow Jean Armour Burns named her last child Maxwell, who was born on the day of her husband's funeral, after Dr. Maxwell. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1796-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Pair of Duelling Pistols given by Burns | Go to resource |
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