born in Haddington. Finlay Calder (born 1957), Scottish rugby player born in Haddington Jim Calder (rugby player) (born 1957), Scottish rugby player born in Haddington Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866), wife of the writer Thomas Carlyle, daughter of a local doctor. She was buried next to her father in the choir of St Mary's Church, at that time still ruined. James Carmichael (1542/3-1628) minister, schoolmaster, latin scholar and collector of Scots proverbs. Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington (c.1565–1627), senior government official during the reign of King James VI. John Cook Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1866. Margaret Cunnison (1914 –2004), Scottish aviator and the first Scottish woman flying instructor. She was one of the first women to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. John Currie, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1709. Fish (born 1958), rock musician, lives in Haddington after leaving Marillion in 1988. William George Gillies (1898–1973), painter born in the High Street. Student and later principal of the Edinburgh College of Art, several of his works are in the Talbot Rice Gallery in the University of Edinburgh. John Gray (1646–1717), preacher, scholar and book collector, was born and died in Haddington. He assembled an important library of early printed books which was sold to the National Library of Scotland in 1961. Anne Gunn (née Young, 1756 – ?1813), music teacher and inventor. Bruce Robert Howard (born 1961), better known as Dr. Robert of 1980s pop band The Blow Monkeys, born in Haddington John Knox (1505, 1513 or 1514–1572), great Protestant reformer born (probably in Nungate on the east bank of the River Tyne, opposite St Mary's) and educated in the town James Lauder (d.1696), M.A., Sheriff-Clerk, Provost, Commissioner to Parliament, and Commissioner to the Convention of Burghs, and M.P., for Haddington David de Lindsay of the Byres, 13th-century Scottish crusader Robert Lorimer (1765-1848), ministered for over 50 years in Haddington. John Mair (also known as Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467–1550), Scottish philosopher, friend of Erasmus and teacher of Calvin, Ignatius Loyola, John Knox, and other Scottish Protestant Reformers including the Protestant martyr Patrick Hamilton and the humanist and Latin stylist George Buchanan. He held many university and government positions. Adam Skirving (1719–1803), songwriter, author of the famous Jacobite song Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?, was born in Haddington, farmed at Garleton, and was buried at Athelstaneford. Also his