Fiddler/Composer, Ayr (1718-95). Published "A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances and Minuets, with 2 particular Slow Tunes ..." Edinburgh (c.1766) 45pp. and a 2nd. Edition as above, but "Greatly Improved" Glasgow (1782) 60pp. [NLS: (1st. Edn.) F.s.f.33;(2nd. Edn.) Glen 97]