E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune
(b. Edinburgh, 1813; d. Edinburgh, 1865). “The Life and Times of Richard I., King of England” (1840); “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers” (1849); “Firmilian” (1854); “Bothwell” (1856); “Norman Sinclair” (1861); “A Nuptial Ode on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales” (1863); “The Glenmutchkin Railway” and “How I Became a Yeoman,” tales from Blackwood (1858). Collaborated with Sir T. Martin in “Bon Gaultier Ballads” (1854), and edited “Ballads of Scotland” (1858). Biography by Martin (1867).
