James Thomson (weaver poet)
James Thomson was a Scottish weaver poet of Currie, near Edinburgh, whose poetry in the Scottish vernacular was published in Leith in the early 19th century. He is remembered by the Poets Glen in Currie, a wooded dell with a scenic riverside path which is a right of way, and by a number of street names, , in the east of Currie.
When James Thomson was born onSeptember 1763 in Edinburgh, his parents were too poor to bring him up and when he was four months old they sent him to be brought up by his mothers parents in the small village of Kenleith in the parish of Currie, where his grandfather was a weaver. The name Kenleith comes from Killeith, the chapel of the Water of Leith, which was the original name for the village of Currie. The farm where Thomson lived lies higher up the Kinleith Burn to the south of Currie Kirk, and is now known as Mid Kinleith.
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