Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and colliery agent. Pseudonym: W. D. Born in Dunkeld. Father was a cabinet maker. Educated at Perth Academy. Prolific periodical contributor and well-connected to major Scottish literary and political figures. Scottish agent for John Bowes Esquire & Partners, a Newcastle colliery company. Honorary Secretary of Leith Sailors’ Home. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem Tel-el-Kebir. September 13, 1882, gives his address as Springbank, Bonnington (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Modern Scottish Poets, eleventh series, D. H. Edwards, 1888, pp. 408-9. (AC)