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John Donald Carrick (1787–1837) was a Scottish journalist and song writer. ==Life== Carrick was born in Glasgow in April 1787; his father was originally from Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire. He was placed in the office of Nicholson, a Glasgow architect, while still young, leaving about 1805 for a clerkship in a counting-house. In 1807 he ran away, and walked to London, where a Scottish tradesman gave him a trial as shopboy. In 1809 Carrick found work with Spode & Co., potters in Staffordshire, who had warehouses in London; and he acquired sufficient knowledge of the business to return to Glasgow, 1811, and set up shop in Hutcheson Street. In 1825 prolonged litigation led to his insolvency. As agent to manufacturers he visited the Highlands, and acquired the Gaelic language.〔 On returning to Glasgow in 1828 Carrick was engaged as sub-editor of the ''Scots Times''. In 1833 he accepted the editorship of the ''Perth Advertiser'', but quarrelled with the managing committee in a year, and in February 1834 started the ''Kilmarnock Journal''. He again fell out with the proprietors, and was attacked by paralysis of the mouth; in 1835 he returned to Glasgow, in bad health.〔 Carrick died 17 August 1837, aged 50.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Donald Carrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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