Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, draper’s assistant, merchant, and postmaster. Born in Lerwick, Scotland, c. 1867. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Via Umbræ, published on 15 November 1890, lists their address as 4 Queens Lane, Lerwick (NLS Dep 341/370). Biographical information: 1891 and 1901 Scotland Census, National Probate Index, Scotland, 1876-1936 (Ancestry). (AC)