_Parentage--Patons--Grandholm--Jersey--"Peninsular War"--School and schoolmasters--Flogging--College--Competition for bursaries--Home life--Aunt and grand-aunt--Holiday rambles--Letter._ John Hill Burton, the subject of this notice, was born on the 22d of August 1809, in the Gallowgate of Aberdeen. He was wont to style himself, as in his childhood he had heard himself described, "The last of the Gallowgate bairns;" the Gallowgate being an old part of Aberdeen devoted chiefly to humble trade, no one, in modern times at least, even distantly connected with gentility living there.…
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