Gawin Douglas, Scottish poet and first British translator of the Aeneid. As a bishop and a member of a powerful family, he also played an important part in a troubled period in Scottish history. Gawain devoted himseif to study, matriculated at the University of St. Andrews in 1489, and took his degree in 1494. He published his Pa�ice of Honour in 1501, and finished his translation of the Aeneid in 151.^ He seems now to have abandoned poetry, and after many stormy intrigues. was consecrated Bishop of Dunkeid in 1515. He was carried down the 'drumiy* stream of Scotch politics, and died in exilc in London in 1522. The date of his unpubiished poem King Hart is uncertain; it was probably composed between 1501 and 1512. An admirabie edition of Douglas'works has lately been made, in four voiumes, by Mr. John Smali of Edinburgh.
1475 - 1522