- GRAHAME, JAMES
- a Scottish poet, born in GLASGOW; bred a lawyer; took to the Church; author of a poem on the "Sabbath," instinct with devout feeling, and containing good descriptive passages (1765-1811).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
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