Edward Pinnington
Edward Pinnington was a Scottish art historian, biographer and journalist. He is mainly known for his authoritative biographies of Scottish artists but he also wrote several articles on Robert Burns and his family.
According to census records, Edward Pinnington was born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire in 1846, though no birth records are available to confirm this. His father was John Hardman Pinnington, an Excise Officer, and his mother, Ann Fishwick. The family seems to originate from Lancashire, England and they lived in various parts of Scotland, namely, the 1841 census Rose Street, Dundee and the 1851 census Logie in Clackmannanshire. The family eventually settled in the Rowans, Cupar Road, Auchtermuchty. Pinnington married Margaret Forbes onOctober 1885 in Edinburgh. They subsequently had three sons John Noel , Edward Forbes and Donald Stanley . Edward Pinnington died in Thornton, Fife onJune 1921, aged 75.
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