Duncan Ban Macintyre
Duncan Ban Macintyre was born in Scotland on March 20th, 1724 and is the Poet. At the age of 88, Duncan Ban Macintyre biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Donnchadh Bàn MacIntyre, anglicized as Duncan Ban MacIntyre (20 March 1724 – May 1812), was one of Scotland's most well-known poets.
He was instrumental in one of Scotland's golden age of Gaelic poetry during the 18th century.
Life
Born in Glen Orchy, Druim Liaghart, he went on to serve in a variety of capacities, including as a soldier in the Argyll Regiment of Militia as a forester and as a constable of Edinburgh City Guard. During the Jacobite rising of 1745–6, he served for the Hanoverian forces. He served in the Battle of Falkirk as a replacement for a local gentleman, Archibald Fletcher of Crannach, and managed to lose his sword during the war — an event that would later lead to the creation of a humourous poem about the war.
MacIntyre's pay was withheld because of the missing sword, and the sword he had lost was retaliation.
Duncan arrived in Edinburgh in 1767 and spent the remainder of his life with the Breadalbane Fencibles and the City Guard before retiring in 1806. During his time in Edinburgh, he wrote several award-winning poems and tried to win Bard's Highland and Agricultural Society, losing to Donald Shaw despite receiving a lot of praise for his poetry.