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A. J. M.Born in York. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Initially trained as a barrister, and then began employment with the ecclesiastical commission in 1860. Involved in Christian socialist movement. Secretly married a working-class woman, Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909), in 1873, who continued to work as a servant. Author of Benoni (1852), Verses Old and New (1865), Dorothy (1880), Vestigia Retrorsum (1891), Poems Chiefly Lyric and Elegiac (1901), Relicta (1909). Was runner-up in the 1859 Burns centenary poetry competition. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)