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Thomas Blacklock was born on November 10, 1721 at Annan, in Dumfriesshire; the son of a bricklayer.
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Thomas Blacklock was born on November 10, 1721 at Annan, in Dumfriesshire; the son of a bricklayer.
Shortly after his father's death in 1740, some of Blacklock's poems began to be handed about among his acquaintances and friends, who arranged for his education at the grammar-school, and subsequently at the university of Edinburgh, where he was a student of divinity. In 1767 the degree of doctor in divinity was conferred on him by Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Thomas Blacklock was appointed Minister of Kirkcudbright, but was objected to by the parishioners on account of his blindness, and gave up the presentation on receiving an annuity. During the 1750s he was sponsored by the empiricist philosopher David Hume
He then retired to Edinburgh, where he became a tutor. He published some miscellaneous poems, which are now forgotten, and is chiefly remembered for having written a letter to Robert Burns, which had the effect of dissuading him from going to the West Indies, indirectly saving his life since the ship sank on the voyage.
He was made Doctor of Divinity in 1767 from the Marischal College (later part of the University of Aberdeen).
He died at his home in Chapel Street, Edinburgh, and was buried across the way in the churchyard of Street Cuthbert"s Chapel of Ease. The building in which he lived (at the corner Chapel Street and West Nicolson) now contains two pubs: Peartree House and The Blind Poet (the walls of which are decorated with a number of Blacklock"s poems).
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