Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, professor, and Baronet. Alternative signature: Sir George Douglas. Born in Gibraltar, where his mother, Doña Sanchez de Pina, was from. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Member of New Club and Edinburgh Club. An acquaintance of William Sharp and Thomas Hardy. Some of his publications include Poems of a Country Gentleman (1897), Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales (1901), and Scottish Poetry: Drummond of Hawthornden to Fergusson (1911). Biographical information: Yellow Nineties Online; John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910), p. 430. (NM)