The Vicar of Deepdale.Born 1842 or 1843 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, after which his family moved to Glasgow. Attended art classes at the University of Glasgow and worked as a school teacher. Headmaster of Quarter Ironworks’ School in Lanarkshire. Member of the Glasgow Ballad Club, Walter Scott Club, and the Wellpark Free Church Literary Society. Biographical information: David Herschell Edwards (ed.), One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets, third series, D. H. Edwards, 1881, pp. 291-5; The Harp of Renfrewshire, second series, Alex. Gardner, 1873, p. xxv; Glasgow’s Literary Bonds https://www.glasgowsliterarybonds.org/societies/sir-walter-scott-club/ (19 February 2020). (AC)
| Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gone! | 1868-03-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7629 |
| Too Late! | 1868-08-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7653 |
| Waiting | 1869-08-28 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7407 |
| Changed | 1872-09-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6854 |
| Unto Death | 1872-12-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6869 |
| Only? | 1874-08-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7018 |
| Going Out With the Tide | 1875-06-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7071 |
| The Round of Life | 1881-10-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7470 |
| The Mystic Muse of the Shell | 1887-09-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 12917 |
| Would We Return Again? | 1892-08 | Victorian Magazine | Poet | 1543 |
| The Angel of Eventide | 1892-09 | Victorian Magazine | Poet | 1544 |
| Beata Solitudo | 1897-04-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 12663 |
| A Seaside Memory | 1899-04-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 12564 |