James Grahame

[2] After completing his literary course at the University of Glasgow, Grahame went in 1784 to Edinburgh, where he worked as a legal clerk, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1795.

His principal work, The Sabbath, a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, is characterized by devotional feeling and by happy delineation of Scottish scenery.

In the notes to his poems he expresses enlightened views on popular education, the criminal law and other public questions.

[3] A satirical reference to "Sepulchral Grahame"[4] is found in Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

[5] James Grahame died at Whitehill House, his brother Robert's home in Glasgow, on 14 September 1811.