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He was born in Glasgow, the son of a successful lawyer
After completing his literary course at the University of Glasgow, Grahame went in 1784 to Edinburgh, where he worked as a legal clerk, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1795. However, he had always wanted to go in for the Church, and when he was forty-four he took Anglican orders, and became a curate first at Shipton, Gloucestershire, and then at Sedgefield, Durham. His principal work, The Sabbath, a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, is characterized by devotional feeling and by happy delineation of Scottish scenery.
In the notes to his poems he expresses enlightened views on popular education, the criminal law and other public questions.
He was emphatically a friend of humanity—a philanthropist as well as a poet. A satirical reference to "Sepulchral Grahame" is found in Lord Byron"s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
He died at Whitehill House in Glasgow on 14 September 1811. A memorial to Grahame lies on the inner north wall of Glasgow Cathedral.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated
(1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed).
Cambridge University Press.
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