Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, hymn writer, pastor. Secretary of the European Freedom Committee and President of the Portsmouth Sunday School Union. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem Luke Lather. After Hood, published on 4 July 1868, lists his address as 5 High St, Gosport (NLS Dep 341/310). Author of The Pleasures of the Sanctuary: A Poem (1865), The inner life: a poem (1866), Sacred Lyrics (1868-1870). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 307. (AC)