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Turner, Andrew (b. 1749)
'A vain coxcomb of an English commercial traveller', who had the ambition to be known as a poet. He tried to patronise the 'ploughman' poet over a bottle of wine in the King's Arms, Dumfries. Burns was asked by his friends, whose party had been interrupted by Turner, to give an example of his impromptu versifying. On hearing the traveller's name and age, Burns immediately produced the following epitaph: 'In Se'enteen Hunder'n Forty-nine
The Deil gat stuff to mak a swine,
An' coost it in a corner;
But wilily he chang'd his plan,
An' shap'd it something like a man,
An' ca'd it Andrew Turner.'
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