Walter Grieve, minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, was born at Dunfermline on 12 Sept. 1781.
He was educated at the parish school of Ettrick, where his father had settled on retiring from the ministry.
He contributed to various periodicals, his most notable efforts being the songs which he wrote for the Forest Minstrel of James Hogg.
He was on intimate terms with Hogg, who speaks of his literary advice as well as his material assistance.
Hogg's Madoc of the Moor is dedicated to him, and he figures as a competing minstrel in the Queen's Wake.