Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Alternative signature: T. S. P. Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Fellow from 1857-1863. Ordained a ptiest in 1851. Curate in various parishes (1851-1864). Vicar in Ellel, Lancashire (1864-1869) and St. Bartholomew the Less, London (1869-1878). Chaplain in Oporto (1878-1885). Author of Three Assize Sermons (1855). Co-editor of Memoir, Letters, and Diary of the Late Rev. Henry S. Polehampton, Chap. at Lucknow. (1858). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for poem, published on 6 April 1878, gives his address as St Bartholomew’s Hospital and, for the poem published on 12 April 1879, 36 Rua da Cêrca, San Jian da Fez, Oporto (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, vols. 3-4, p. 1126; Crockford, p. 503. (AC, CC)