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Candlish, James (1759 — 1806)
Born McCandlish, he was a boyhood neighbour and schoolmate of Burns. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, and in 1794, married Jean Smith (the sister of Burns's friend linen-draper James Smith) one of the Mauchline Belles. They had four children. About 1788, he settled in Edinburgh as a lecturer in medicine. In 1787, Burns sought his help in getting a song they had sung together at school, 'Pompey's Ghost' for the Museum. Candlish, in due course, did as he was asked, saying: 'Being myself unskilled in music as a science, I made an attempt to get the song you mentioned set by some other hand; but, as I could not accomplish this, I must send you the words without the music.' In a letter to Peter Hill, dated March 1791, from Ellisland, Burns refers to Candlish as: 'the earliest friend except my only brother that I have on earth, and one of the worthiest fellows that ever any man called by the name of Friend.'
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