William Forbes

William Forbes of Disblair (1661 - 1740) was a Scottish composer and poet. He was noted for his anti-Union political poetry, notably The True Scots Genius, Reviving (1704), and A Pil for Pork-Eaters (1705), and his later dialogue on marriage, Xantippe: or the Scolding Wife (1724), an original development from a Latin dialogue by Erasmus. The name “Disblair” is not infrequently found in important manuscript collections of the period, and his arrangements of classic Scots airs like “John Anderson