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Robert Leighton was a Scottish poet, his father was David L. Leighton, who deceased in 1828. In 1834, his mother remarried a farm worker with the name of Fleming, of East Friarton, Fifeshire, where Leighton obtained the learning thereafter applied in his ‘Wee Herd Loon.’ When his mother died in 1835, he lived together with his brother William, a shipowner, in Dundee, studied at the academy there until 1837, when he came into his brother’s office. In 1842–1843 he went around the world as a supercargo in some of William Leighton’s crafts, going to Sydney and coming back by Valparaiso. He later went into the service of the London and North-Western Railway at Preston, where he got married in 1850 to Miss Jane Campbell, daughter of a retired Scottish school administrator, a local in Liverpool. His wife is the ‘Eliza’ of his thespian and thoughtful poems. From 1854 to 1858, he run a branch industry named Ayr, a firm of Liverpool seed tradesman. In 1858, he paid a visit to his brother William, who had relocated in America, and then journeyed for the Liverpool firm in the agricultural districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In March 1867, he became ailing when met an accident nearby Youghal. He died after almost 2 months.Before 1843 Leighton had written ‘Ye Three Voyces’ to Jerrold’s ‘Shilling Magazine.’ In 1849, he drafted for a Dundee pamphlet many poems and songs, a few of which, ‘Jenny Marshall’s Candy, O,’ was so usually sung that it massively enhanced the trade it commended. In 1855, were seen ‘Poems by Robin,’ and in 1861 and 1866, ‘Poems by Robert Leighton,’ the second copy being an improvement of its forerunner. ‘Scotch Words’ and ‘The Bapteesement o’ the Bairn’ were issued in a pamphlet in 1870. The two are cunning colloquial poems, and the second is not only a quaint story yet also an astute reproach of Scottish Calvinistic constriction.
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