Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, editor, sculptor, and illustrator. Alternative signature: Pittendrigh. Born in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Inspired by his father, who was a sculptor, learned sculpture. Mentored by William Brodie and John Mossman. An advocate of Celtic Revival and Scottish nationalism. Member of Glasgow Arts Club, Glasgow Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, and Aberdeen Painters’s Society. Poetry publications include Pro Patria (1915) and Bog Myrtle and Peat Reek (1922) in Scots. Died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Biographical information: Yellow Nineties Online. (NM)