Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie.
- Norrie, W.
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![lie forgot himself; and the sad result was, that an insidious con- sumption had gained the ascendancy before serious fears were entertained. In spite of failing health, he struggled on until Oct. 1837, when, at the urgent solicitation of Mr Tait and other friends in Scotland, he resigned his situation, and returned to this country, in the fond hope that his native air and cessation from labour might aid in restoring him to health. His mother, on hearing of his illness, went to Leeds to wait upon him; and on being asked how she obtained the money to undertake so long a journey, she replied: ‘ I shore [reaped] for it.’ With a kindness which did him the highest honour, Mr Johnstone placed his house at Hi coil’s service, and every means which the best medical skill could suggest was tried for his benefit. But it was too late. Neither change of scene nor medical skill was of the least avail. After lingering for a brief space, becoming gradually weaker and weaker, yet hopeful and earnest to the close, Nicoll breathed his last in Mr Johnstone’s house on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1837, in the 24th year of his age, and was buried in North Leith Churchyard. The parents of Bobert Nicoll survived their gifted son for many years. The father died at Tulliebeltane—the birth-place of the poet—on Nov. 30, 1861, at the advanced age of 87. In May 1863, his mother, who was then nearly 80 years of age, sailed for Auckland, New Zealand, with her daughter, Mrs Allan—who was the heroine of the sweet little poem, ‘ My Sister ’—and her husband. Mrs Allan was the last of a family of eight or nine children, all of whom, except her, were boys; and, save her, the aged mother had seen them all pass away. JAMES SAUNDERS. JAMES SAUNDERS, writer, was a man well known in public life in Dundee, in his time ; for he invariably took a keen interest and an active part in the discussion of all local questions in which the public interest was in any way involved. In the long and keen struggle by the Guildry for their independence, he fought in the front rank, with Captain Blair, William Roberts, William Lindsay, and other staunch patriots of that day. When the Guildry succeeded in wresting from the Town Council—then a self-elected body—the management of their own affairs, and the election of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28146128_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
