| LC control no. | n 82093537 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR4970.M45 |
| Personal name heading | McGonagall, William |
| Variant(s) | Macgonagall, William M'Gonagall, Wm. (William) McConagall, William |
| Associated country | Scotland |
| Located | Dundee (Scotland) Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1825-03 |
| Death date | 1902-09-29 |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Weaving Acting |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Weavers Actors |
| Found in | His Poetic gems, 1954. This is the book of the lamentations of the poet Macgonagall, 1905. Wm. M'Gonagall, poet, 191-? Zuidam, R. The Tay Bridge Disaster, 2000, c1999: t.p. (William McConagall) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1825; d. 1902) Oxford DNB online, 3 October 2019 (McGonagall, William (c. 1825-1902), poet and actor, was born in Edinburgh, the fifth child of Charles McGonagall, a migrant Irish cotton weaver, and his wife; died Edinburgh, on 29 September 1902) Wikipedia, 3 October 2019 (William McGonagall; William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825-29 September 1902) was an Irish-born Scottish weaver, poet and actor; won notoriety as an extremely bad poet; Throughout his adult life he claimed to have been born in Edinburgh, giving his year of birth variously as 1825 or 1830, but his entry in the 1841 Census gives his place of birth, like his parents', as "Ireland"; Biographer Norman Watson suggests that McGonagall may have falsified his place of birth, as a native-born Scotsman would be better treated under the Poor Law of 1845 than one born in Ireland; David Phillips [author of No poets' corner in the Abbey] identifies 1825 as the more likely birth date; The McGonagall family settled in Dundee around 1840 where William was apprenticed to follow his father's trade as a handloom weaver; In 1895, McGonagall and his wife moved to Edinburgh; text accompanying the featured portrait says: born, Edinburgh, Scotland; died in Edinburgh, Scotland) McGonagall online WWW site, 3 October 2019: McGonagall's life (In his autobiography McGonagall says he was born in Edinburgh and his parents were born in Ireland; in a brief autobiography mainy describing a trip to Balmoral: he says he was born in 1830 in the city of Edinburgh) McGonagall in the census (William McGonagall appears in seven censuses; the 1841 census: gives his age as 15 and his birthplace as Ireland - it's possible that he would want to cover the stigma of being an Irish immigrant by falsifying his birthplace or it is possible that the enumerator just classified all the McGonnagall family [apart from the 9 month old baby] as Irish); The 1851 to 1901 censuses all give his birthplace as Edinburgh [although his age at the time of each census doesn't increase by 10 years each time]) <http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/life/mcgonagall-in-the-census> |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 00068393 |
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