WILLIAM MESTON BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM MESTON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

MESTON, WILLIAM (1688?-1745).S. of a blacksmith, was ed. at Marischal Coll., Aberdeen, took part in the '15, and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk (1723) is an imitation of Hudibras . It has little merit.