Thomas Nicoll Hepburn was a Scottish poet and author who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Gabriel Setoun'.
He wrote poems such as 'Jack Frost', 'Romance' and 'The World’s Music.' He also wrote novels in the 'Kailyard school

Kailyard school

The Kailyard school of Scottish fiction was developed about the 1890s as a reaction against what was seen as increasingly coarse writing representing Scottish life complete with all its blemishes. It has been considered as being an overly sentimental representation of rural life, cleansed of real...

' style such as Barncraig and Robert Urquhart (1896). He was born on 21 April 1861 in West Wemyss

West Wemyss

West Wemyss is a village lying on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. According to the 2007 population estimate, the village has a population of 237. The village was granted burgh of barony status in 1511, bearing the name from the Wemyss family who lived in Wemyss Castle...

, Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

. His father, Alexander Hepburn was a tailor. He died in London around September 1930.

Some Published Works

• The Child World, London: Bodley Head, 1893.
• Barncraig: Episodes in the Life of a Scottish Village, London: J. Murray
  John Murray (publisher)
  John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
  
  , 1893.
• Sunshine and Haar: Some Further Glimpses of Life at Barncraig, London: J. Murray
  John Murray (publisher)
  John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
  
  , 1895
• Robert Urquhart, London: Bliss Sands and Foster, 1896.
• Robert Burns
  Robert Burns
  Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...
  
  , Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier
  Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier
  This Edinburgh book publishing firm produced many hundreds of books mainly on religious and biographical themes, especially during its heyday from about 1880 to 1910. It is probably best remembered for its memorable ‘Famous Scots Series’ with their distinctive red and gilt covers. Forty-two of...
  
  , 1896, ("Famous Scots Series")
• George Malcolm, London: Bliss Sands & Co, 1897.
• The Skipper of Barncraig, London: A. Constable & Co.
  Archibald Constable
  Archibald Constable was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer.He was born at Carnbee, Fife, as the son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, but in 1795 he started in business for himself as a dealer in rare...
  
  , 1901.