William Knox (1789–1825): Born in Roxburghshire, Knox was the son of a farmer. He attended Musselburgh grammar school and between 1812–1817 farmed at Wrae, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire. He returned to live with his parents after his farm failed. The family settled in Edinburgh in 1820 and Knox became a writer, supported by John Wilson, who often gave him money. Knox contributed to the Literary Gazette and other journals and published three collections of his own poetry: The Lonely Hearth (1818); The Songs of Israel (1824); and The Harp of Zion (1825). In early November 1825, he suffered a stroke and died a few days later. Southey and Knox corresponded in 1824 when the latter sent the Poet Laureate a copy of The Songs of Israel.