Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Uncle of poet William Leighton. Born in Dundee and educated at Dundee Academy. Worked for his brother (who was a ship owner) and travelled widely in 1842-1843, then employed by a railway firm in Preston, and then became a manager of a Liverpool seed merchant firm that was located in Ayr. Author of Rhymes and Poems (1861), The Laddies’ Lamentation on the Loss o’ his Whittle, and Other Poems (1872), Poems (1866, 1869), Reuben, and Other Poems (1875), Records, and Other Poems (1880). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, pp. 272-3; Preface, The Poems of William Leighton, Elliot Stock, 1890; Archives Hub (19 February 2021). (AC)