In the Dictionary of National Biography published 1885, Thompson Cooper calls it "a most meritorious work," writing "the affinities of the Celtic words being traced in most of the languages of ancient and modern times. To it is prefixed a Gaelic grammar, and there is a short historical appendix of ancient names, deduced from the authority of Ossian and other poets."
Ossian | Ossian Schauman | Ossian Everett Mills | Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor | Herman Ossian Armour |
Patrick Donner (4 December 1904 – 19 August 1988), British Member of Parliament, son of Ossian.
He has five siblings: Alexander, Sam, Bill, Eija and Valter, and two half-brothers from his father's second wife Megan Everett, Ossian and Kolbjörn.
James Macpherson claimed to have found old poems from Ossian (or Oisin).
Betty Ross Clarke, a great granddaughter of Ossian Ross, was an American stage actress and film starlet.
(edit by) Vittorio Alfieri, Estratti d'Ossian e da Stazio per la tragica (Asti: Casa d'Alfieri, 1969)
Also something of an Anglophile, he translated British poetry, including Macpherson’s Ossian and novels such as Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield – once he even tried to write poetry in English.