Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: W. C. H. Alternative signature: W. C. Howden. Born in Penicuik, Midlothian. The Chambers’s Journal Author Book entry, for his poem published on 23 June 1883 (received in the journal office on 25 March 1882), gives an address of Rustic Place, Dundee (NLS Dep 341/294). For his poem published on 16 November 1901, the journal ledger lists his address as Elmbank, Wormit-on-Tay, Fife (NLS Dep 341/371). The 1901 Scotland Census lists him at Wormit Road, Fife, married to Mary Ann Howden and the father of five daughters, and working as a jeweller’s salesman. Birth date from baptism record, death date from probate record. Biographical information: Ancestry. (AC, TNT)