Poet and Church of England clergyman. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Vicar in
Braydon, Wiltshire, from 1860, where he was involved in building the first church.
Curate of Purton, near Swinton, in Wiltshire (according to the 1866 Clergy List and the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem published on 22 June 1872). Biographical information: Wiltshire
Community History https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=1261 (29 December 2019); The Clergy List for 1866, George Cox, 1866, p. 79; Chambers’s Journal ledger (NLS Dep 341/368). (AC)