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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS son of a bricklayer, was See also:born at See also:Annan, in See also:Dumfriesshire, in 1721. When not quite six months old he lost his sight by small-pox, and his career is largely interesting as that of one who achieved what he did in spite of See also:blindness. Shortly after his See also:father's See also:death in 1740, some of Blacklock's poems began to be handed about among his acquaintances and See also:friends, who arranged for his See also:education at the See also:grammar-school, and subsequently at the university of See also:Edinburgh, where he was a student of divinity. His first See also:volume of Poems was published in 1746. In 1754 he became See also:deputy librarian for the See also:Faculty of See also:Advocates, by the kindness of See also:Hume. He was eventually estranged from Hume, and defended See also:James See also:Beattie's attack on that philosopher. See also:Black-See also:lock was among the first friends of See also:Burns in Edinburgh, being one of the earliest to recognize his See also:genius. He was in 1762 ordained See also:minister of the See also:church of See also:Kirkcudbright, a position which he soon resigned; in 1767 the degree of See also:doctor in divinity was conferred on him by Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen. He died on the 7th of See also:July 1791. An edition of his poems in 1793 contains a See also:life by See also:Henry See also:Mackenzie.

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