William Meston

William Meston was a Scottish poet.
The son of a blacksmith, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, took part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk is an imitation of Hudibras.
His "Mob Contra Mob" or "The Rabblers Rabbled" was printed in Edinburgh in 1738 and reprinted by Peter Williamson also in Edinburgh c.1770.
Category:1680s births
Category:1745 deaths
Category:Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Category:18th-century Scottish poets
Category:Scottish male poets
Category:Scots-language poets