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historian poet

Henry Adamson, was a Scottish poet and historian.

Background

Adamson was the son of James Adamson, Dean of the Merchant Guildry and Provost of Perth, Scotland, baptised on 11 November 1581.

Education

University of Street Andrews.

Career

He died before July in the year 1637. The poem is an important document for its general account of Perth in the seventeenth century. Adamson is credited with first using the word curling in 1620.

He related that his friend, Mr Gall, "a citizen of Perth, and a gentle-man of goodly stature, and pregnant wit, much given to pastime, as golf, archerie, curling and jovial companie".

lieutenant also records the playing of Golf on the South Inch:

And ye, my clubs must no more prepare

To make your balls flee whistling through the air

Referring to the rebuilding of a bridge over the River Tay, swept away in 1621, Adamson wrote:

Thus Mr Gall assured it would be so

And my good genius doth surely know:

Foreign what we do presage is not in grosse

We have the Mason word, and second sight,

Things for to come we can foretell aright.

Connections

Friend:
William Drummond