William Meston
 William Meston (1688? - 1745) was a Scottish poet.The son of a blacksmith he was educated at Marischal College Aberdeen took part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk (1723) is an imitation of Hudibras. His Mob Contra Mob or The Rabblers Rabbled was printed in Edinburgh in 1738 and reprinted by Peter Williamson also in Edinburgh c1770. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: