William Livingston
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, The poet William Livingston was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Bowmore, Islay and important figure in 19th-century Scottish Gaelic literature. Life Livingstone was born upon the farm of Gartmain, near Bowmore in Islay in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd in 1808. A passionate autodidact, he was a tailor by trade, yet he taught himself the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Welsh languages. During his travels through the Scottish lowlands, Livingstone collected an extensive knowledge of the Scottish nation's topography, place-names and folklore.
