Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, historian, and clergyman. Pseudonym: W. I. Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries for Cornwall. Married Louisa Wallis on 20 September 1875 in Bodmin, Cornwall. Author of Bishops of Cornwall A. D. 909-1877 (1877). The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem, published on 10 March 1877, gives his address as Bodmin (NLS Dep 341/368). Biographical information: George Clement Boase, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: Comprising a supplementary catalogue of authors, lists of Acts of Parliament and Civil war tracts, &c., and an index to the contents of the 3 vols, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1882, p. 1240-1241. (AC, CC)