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Alexander Macansh

born 1803; living 1855–57


Alexander Macansh (born 1803; living 1855–57) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 3 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 5 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. The Mother and Child
  2. Change
  3. The Tomb of the Bruce

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