Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and Catholic clergyman. Pseudonym: Jos. Carmichael. Prior of St. Benedict’s Abbey in Fort Augustus. Author of The Scottish Monasteries of Old: A Brief Account of the Houses which existed in Scotland before the Protestant Reformation for monks following the rule of St. Benedict (1913). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for A Song of Hope, published on 3 November 1900, lists the poet as Rev. M. Barrett, of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Sadliers’ Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo, D. & J. Sadler & Co., 1889 , p. 133; The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 11, 1914, pp. 227-28; Ancestry. (AC, CC)