James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic. Wikipedia
Born: October 27, 1736, Ruthven, United Kingdom
Died: February 17, 1796 (age 59 years), Inverness, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Dante Alighieri, John Milton, and Emanuel Swedenborg
Children: Juliet Macpherson
Grandchild: David Brewster Macpherson
Great grandchild: Edith Brewster-Macpherson
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