Burns Night

It was Rabbie Burns' birthday yesterday and it looks like one of the Hugh Wrights really enjoyed Burns Night dinners.  Here's a clipping from the Strathearn Herald but a similar recount also appeared in the Dundee Advertiser, January 1886.

It reads:
ONE WHO DANCED WITH BURNS. - At a meeting of the London Burns Club on Monday night, Mr Hugh Wright of Alticry said that within the last twenty years he had spoken to an old lady who had danced with Burns at his [Burns's] brother's marriage. Burns was very hearty, and as he and his partner were careering round the room the poet upset the table which contained the bride's china.

I believe this was Hugh Wright, Born 1831 in Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. Burns' wife was from Mauchline, and although Rabbie died in 1796, this story is entirely possible. According to visitscotland.com, the period of time Burns lived in Mauchline was "arguably his most creative and productive period".