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Ronalds of the Bennals
The Bennals was a two-hundred-acre farm in Tarbolton parish, owned by William Ronald, a wealthy farmer, and therefore loosely termed a laird. He had two daughters, Jean and Anne, admired by Burns and his brother. Burns's poem 'The Ronalds of the Bennals' satirises their wealth. Jean Ronald was baptised in October 1759, and her sister Anne in June 1767. Gilbert wooed the elder, Jean, but she married John Reid, a farmer at Langlands. William Ronald went bankrupt in 1789. Burns wrote to his brother William in November 1789: 'Mr Ronald is bankrupt. You will easily guess, that from his insolent vanity in his sunshine of life, he will feel a little retaliation from those who thought themselves eclipsed by him, for, poor fellow, I do not think he ever intentionally injured anyone. I might indeed perhaps except his wife, whom he certainly has used very ill....'
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