Robert BurnsLimited World Federation Limited www.rbwf.org.uk 1989 The digital conversion of this Burns Chronicle was sponsored by Alex J. Hood In memory of his father, James A. Hood (1920-1989), both of Balerno Burns Club, “Let it Blaw” The digital conversion service was provided by DDSR Document Scanning by permission of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited to whom all Copyright title belongs. www.DDSR.com BURNS CHRONICLE BURNS CHRONICLE AND CLUB DIRECTORY Instituted 1891 WHOLE NUMBER 98 Price. Paper £4.99, Cloth i.7.50 (Members £2.99 and £4.50 respectively) Publi>hed hy the Burns Federation, Dick ln;titute, Kilmarnock Contents Enez Barne> Logan From the Editor Oh1tuan<:'> Book R..:v1ew., The Selkirk Grace. Fact and Fable Greetmg., from Greenock Mabel lrvmg Burm, the Mw,1cal Dumfne' Burn' Howff Cluh Centenary 3..\ Poetry 37 The Bra,h and Reid Edition'> of "Tam o' Shanter'' G Ro.,.,Roy 38 No Ordmary Man ..\5 Wilham Corbet Jame' L Hcmp>tead ..\9 Ryedale Cottage Irving Miller 57 Elli,land Bicentenary Jmeph H1.,lop and th..: Song' of Roher! Burn., M. T R 13 Turnbull 59 Robert Burn' and Prote.,.,or Stewart John Str.iwhorn 63 The "Pa1'1ey 500" Gn:etmg 'I G JI 72 Tho'>C Jolly Beggar' R Peel 73 Tempu., Edax Rcrum Roy Solomon 76 The World-wide memoriab to Rob.:rt Burn., 77 A Recollection ot Burn'> trom 1836 Candv Livengood 83 Schoob Competll1on Report - 1988 Jame., Gia" X6 Robbie·., Statue> JcffBrownngg 8lJ Statement of Account'> 98 Office Bearer., of the Burn'> Federation to..\ L1't of Prev1<iu., Burn' Confe.rcncc' 106 List ot Dl'trict> 107 Reporh of the 1987 Conference I 13 Alphahet1cal Ll'>t of Clubs 123 Numerical L1't of Club' 126 2 j I~- Pride Of Place At Your Bums Supper. This year your Burns Supper could be noticeably different. With the guests following the toasts and joining in the choruses- word perfect. Best of all. from a Scottish point of view, it won't cost you a penny extra For the place mats illustrated above are free from Drambuie. They're available in multiples of 20 assorted mats. just fill in your requirements on the attached coupon and we'll do the rest. Scot free! r Tu7he7ra~ieLlqu;: C~tW2 ~ fuce,Ninb:°gh I Please send me I \Burns Supper Place Mats l?li-MOliriJ.J.:.I Name ___________ Position ___________ I Club _____ I Address ________________________ L---------------~ 3 Enez Barnes Logan Enez has been such a well-known figure of the Burns movement for the pa~t two decades, that it comes as a surpnse to realise that she is 5till only 43 year5 old and, a5 such, i5 the youngest President in the entire history of the Burns Federation. It seems faintly unchivalrous to mention a lady's age, so by way of amends I hasten to add that Enez today looks younger, and more radiant than ever. Verily, the camera does not he; compare the photograph opposite with the portrait which appeared in the 1979 Chro111cle. Enez was born and brought up in Kilmarnock and although she and her husband Robert moved to Kilmaurs four years ago she remains true to auld Kil lie. She was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and currently worh in Paisley where she is the Sales Credit Controller m the accounts department of a large company. The Logans have two daughters - Helen (22) lives and worh in London, while Nancy (19) 1s a hairdres5er. Twenty years ago Enez and her mother paid a visit to the Tam o' Shanter Inn Museum at Ayr and then went on to the Cottage and Birthplace Museum at Alloway. This rekindled an interest in Burns which had been dormant ~mce schooldays. Soon afterwards she was taken along by her father and mother-in-law to the Kilmarnock Howff Burns Club to one of their special guest nights when ladies were admitted. The Howff was then a bastion of male chauvinism which, however, had the grace and good sense to move with the times. In 1971 ladies were admitted to full membership and Enez was the first of her sex to take the opportunity. One of her earliest memories of a club meeting was a talk given by the late Alex MacMillan in which he urged members to encourage young people to take up an interest in the Burns movement. This made such a lasting impression that Enez agreed when she was approached about taking on the job of Club Secretary. As a Club official, she was appointed a delegate to the Ayrshire Association of Burns Clubs, where her outstanding qualities were quickly recognised. In 1974 she became Vice-President of the Association, and three years later became President - the youngest in the Association's history. She has also served as President of the Howff Club and performed yeoman service as Secretary of the Ayrshire Association. She has taken a leading role in Burns actIVlties throughout Ayrshire in the past twenty years and was recently elected Vice-President of Kilmarnock Burns Club. For many years now she has adjudicated in the verse-speaking competitions for schoolchildren held in Kilmarnock and Loudoun Distnct. She has been closely involved in countless events organised by the Ayrshire Association over the past fifteen years. Keenly interested in all aspects of local history, she regards her greate5t achievement so far the location of the graves of the Tannock Brothers, now marked by a plaque erected by the Howff Burns Club. Enez organised the very successful Bicentenary Celebration in Kilmarnock, honouring the printing of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, held at the grave of John Wilson in July 1986. Enez has attended every Burns Conference since 1972 and joined the Federation Executive in 1979. She was involved in the planning committees for the Conferences at Irvine (1981) and Kilmarnock (1986). She wa5 elected Junior Vice-President of the Federation at London in 1985, and progressed to President in September 1987. A more than usually crowded presidential year culminated in the highly successful Conference in Hamilton, Ontario. Enez is particularly busy in January and February and reckons to take part m fourteen or fifteen Burns Suppers each year. Obviously Robert Burns plays a large part in her life, but she still finds time to keep up her interests in local history. Over a period of two years she wrote a history of the Old High Kirk in Kilmarnock, published in serial form in the Church magazine, and she has also contributed a number of articles to the Chronicle on aspects of Kilmarnock pertaining to the Bard. She is currently writing a book entitled Kilmarnock, a Modern Treatise. 5 From The Editor In March 1988 I had the good fortune to Green, the Pa its of Clannochdyke, the visit Amtralia in connection with the Telfers of Nether Affleck and Grey­ Bicentennial Numismatic Convention in sauchs, the Weir; of Waterside, the Sydney, New South Wales where I gave Browns of Auchlochan and the Steel\ of one of the papers. Regrettably, the tnp Cumberhead. Robert Steel was slain at was arranged at rather short notice, ;o the battle of Bothwell Bng in 1679 and that it wa; impossible to plan an itinerary lies buned in Strathaven kirkyard. His which would have enabled me to meet nephew David Steel of Skellyhill was shot the clubs affiliated to the Burns Federa­ in cold blood before his wife and bairns t10n. Neverthele;s, I was very glad of the by Chrichton, a lieutenant of Dragoons. opportunity to meet member; of the on 20th December 1686. Of Robert's Scottish Society and Burn; Club ot son\, John was one of the leaders of the Australia during the cour;e of their very Covenanters 111 Lesmahagow pari'h dur­ lively monthly meeting. ing the Killing Times and survived the May Dickie, the Club secretary, left persecution to obtain a capta111 's commis­ details of the time and venue of the sion in the Cameronian regiment in 1689. my hotel, and ;hortly before meeting at The other son Wilham was my great I strolled along the appointed hour (nine times) grandfather, tenant 111 Street to St. Stephen's Macquarie Lochanbank. He was briefly impmoned early, and to kill Church Hall. I arrived after Bothwell Brig but released through around the glass show­ time I browsed the good offices of the Marquess of outer hall. St. Stephen's is cases 111 the Douglas, though for much of the 1680s he second oldest Presbyterian only the was a fugitive. Both John and Wilham Sydney, but it has an incompar­ church 111 used to return to their farm; from time to of relics and memorabilia able collection time, and on several occasions were with the hi;tory of Presbyte­ associated almost captured by the troopers of back to the time of John rianism nght Claverhouse. Once, John hid 111 the byre, the Lords of the Co11gregat1on. Knox and covered in straw, and was on the poi1it of particular caught my One exhibit 111 detection when his re'>ourceful wife an ancient Ha' Bible, its page; eye. It was Marion dropped a lighted torch into the with age; but it wa; the savage yellowing tub of unne (used to bleach cloth) and the thicknes5 of the cut right through .. created such a fearful stink as to dnve out board; of it; binding book to the very the \Oldiers. that stopped me in my tracks. Could this be . ? Sure enough, a copy of William himself was forced to hide in Woodrow's Faithful Contending.1· Dis­ the byre on one occasion.