On this day in 1865, children's poet Walter Wingate was born in Dalry, Ayrshire.

Wingate was the son of David Wingate, a noted local poet in Ayrshire, known as the "Collier Poet". Walter was also a noted watercolour artist in his lifetime, but is best remembered today for his volume of children's poetry which was published in 1919. His poems such as Sair Finger are much loved for their gentle humour.

On April 15 1877, Sir David Ross, the Scottish moral philosopher and eminent Aristotleian scholar, was born.

Ross is noted for his definitive study of Aristotle, published in 1923. His, The Right and the Good, written in 1930, is regarded as the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Ross went on to spend many years as Chairman of the council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Today's recipe: an Italian-inspired alternative to the traditional Sunday roast. Milk poached pork shoulder