Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and teacher. Pseudonym: Adriel Vere. Born in London. Educated at the University of Cambridge. Headmaster of La Martinère, Calcutta, India (1868-1875) and Queen Mary’s College (1881-1897). Married Francis Emily Webb 15 June 1869. Author identified from Chambers’s ledger entry for To the Lapwing, published on 3 October 1896, which lists the author as J. A. Aldis, of Queen Mary’s School, Walsall (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Venn, vol. 1, part 2, p. 26. (AC, CC)