Worthies of Dumfriesshire and Galloway (1908)
Drylie, John B.
In the eighteenth century, Dumfriesshire and Galloway, and the southern counties of Scotland generally, were particularly prolific in the production of what are called "worthies" or original characters. No district, perhaps, in the whole of Scotland, had a greater plethora of really interesting characters than had Dumfriesshire and Galloway, and in the articles contained in this book, which have been reprinted from the Dumfries and Galloway "C...