John Barbour

John Barbour was born around 1320 and became archdeacon of Aberdeen. He studied at Oxford and Paris with English safe-conducts obtained in the middle of the war, kept the accounts of the royal household, of which he was auditor of the exchequer in 1372 and clerk of audit the following year, and received a life pension for his poem. Other works are attributed to him, all of them lost. He died on 13 March 1395 in Aberdeen, and his pension ceased to be paid on that date.

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• PoetryThe BrusJohn Barbour · 1375LiteraturePublic domain