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| | William Drummond (of Hawthornden) Biography (1585–1649) Online Encyclopedia Article About William Drummond (of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Poet, born at Hawthornden, near Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. |
 | | He studied law at Bourges and Paris, then became laird of Hawthornden, where he devoted his life to poetry, writing many for Mary Cunningham of Barns, who died on the eve of their marriage (1615), and mechanical experiments. |
 | | He was the first Scottish poet to write in a form of English not from Scotland. |
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