John Barbour
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John Barbour
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1316 - 1395)
DescriptionJOHN BARBOUR POET 1316 - 1395 AUTHOR OF "THE BRUIS" LIVED NEARBYHistoryPoet and Author. In 1357 he became the Archdeacon of St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen, and travelled frequently to Oxford to study. He was the author of the metrical The Brus, a life of Robert the Bruce and the now lost A Chronicle of Scottish History.
Location Info53, Castle Street, Former Bank of Scotland Building
NotesImage Attribution: watty62, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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