John Grieve (poet)
John Grieve (12 September 1781 – 4 April 1836), was a Scottish poet. Early pursuits. John, son of the Rev. Walter Grieve, minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, was born at Dunfermline on 12 Sept. 1781. He was educated at the parish school of Ettrick, where his father had settled on retiring from the ministry. After leaving school he was first a merchant's clerk in Alloa, and then acted for some time as a bank clerk in Greenock; he returned to Alloa, however, to become a partner in the firm of his former employer. In 1804, he  began business in Edinburgh, in partnership with Mr. Chalmers Izzet, hat-maker. He becomes a writer. Here he was successful, and found leisure for literary pursuits. He contributed to various periodicals, his most notable efforts being the songs which he wrote for the "Forest Minstrel" of James Hogg. He was on intimate terms with Hogg, who speaks of his literary advice as well as his material assistance. Hogg's "Madoc of the Moor" is dedicated to him, and he figures as a competing minstrel in the "Queen's Wake". It was on Grieve's recommendation that the "Queen's Wake