Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and soldier. Alternative signature: F. B. Doveton. Born in Exeter, Devon, and later lived at Karsfield, Torquay, Devon. Joined the Royal Canadian Rifles in 1861 and the Army Control Depot in 1868 until retirement in 1871. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem On the Bridge, published 21 July 1883, gives his address as Grange Lodge, 10 Grange Gardens, Eastbourne (NLS Dep 341/369). Author of Snatches of Song (1880), Sketches in Prose and Verse (1886), and Songs Grave and Gay (1893). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 143. (AC)