Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was born in a small cottage in Alloway on 25 January 1759. By the time
of his death, aged 37, on 21 July 1796, he had become Scotland's bestloved poet and,
perhaps more importantly, the symbol of the regeneration of a nation.
At Mount Oliphant, when he was 15, Robert wrote his first song, Handsome Nell, for
his partner in the fields at harvest time, Nellie Kirkpatrick.
Robert had to work as a flax dresser in Irvine to earn money for family but his real
passion was poetry. At the age of 27 he had 3 children, two of them were twins.
In July of 1786, Burns had succeeded in publishing the first book of his poems, the
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