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John Skinner (1721–1807)
Skinner, John. A Scotch song-writer; born at Balfour, in Aberdeenshire, Oct. 3, 1721; died on June 16, 1807. His songs were very popular: among them were ‘Tullochgorum,’ reckoned by Burns “the best Scotch song Scotland ever saw”; ‘Ewie wi’ the Crookit Horn’; ‘John o’ Badenyon’; ‘The Old Man’s Song.’ He wrote an ‘Ecclesiastical History of Scotland’ (2 vols., 1788).