Robert Burns Henry Tucker wrote the music for a song called "Our Own Robbie Burns" in 1856. Burns Night, in effect a second national day, is celebrated on Burns's birthday, 25 January, with Burns suppers around the world, and is more widely observed in Scotland than the official national day, St. Andrew's Day. The first Burns supper in The Mother Club in Greenock was held on what was thought to be his birthday on 29 January 1802; in 1803 it was discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759. The format of Burns suppers has changed
James Burns (merchant) of Renfrewshire. The ‘Memoirs’ are filled with detailed accounts of the incidents which befell the nobility of Scotland during turbulent times. James Burns (merchant) James Burns was a Glasgow-born merchant of the 17th century and the author of the "Memoirs of the Civil War and during the Usurpation from 1644 to 1661". Little is known of his history, but he is supposed to be the son of Robert Burns, who is mentioned in "Ure's History of Glasgow",’ and whose name appears in the "List of Linen and Woollen Drapers", commonly called English Merchants, since the year 1600. The manuscript of