Surname: Hosken Forename(s): James Dryden b. 1861. d. 1953. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Working-class poet. Born in Helston, Cornwall, and educated at Helston National School.
Father was an iron founder. Worked for H. M. Customs in London from 1880. Suffered
ill health, and moved back to Helston in 1899 where he worked as a postman. Publications
include Phaon and Sappho (1891), Verses by the Way (1892). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 232; VIAF (AC)