John Horsburgh

Born at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, he was left an orphan early, and studied drawing at the Trustees' Academy.

At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver, and worked under him for some years.

[2] At the age of about sixty Horsburgh retired from active work, and undertook gratuitously the duties of pastor in the Scottish Baptist church.

He engraved several single plates, including Prince Charlie reading a Despatch, after William Simson, Sir Walter Scott, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, and another portrait of Scott after John Watson Gordon.

His pastoral addresses were published with a short memoir prefixed immediately after his death.