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Fall, Robert (d. 1796)
Member of a wealthy merchant family, and Provost of Dunbar at the time Burns dined with him, during his Border tour. He was alleged to have been of gipsy, or 'Fa', origin. Burns described the Provost in his Journal as 'an eminent merchant, and most respectable character, but undescribable, as he exhibits no marked traits'. His wife was: 'a genius in painting; fully more clever in thhe fine arts and sciences than my friend Lady Wauchope, without her consummate assurances of her own abilities'. Provost Fall's house at Dunbar, once a town house of the Earl of Lauderdale, still stands, part of a barracks, though no longer used for military purposes.
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