Working-class poet. Born in Kincardineshire. Father was a farmer. Worked as a compositor
in Elgin and Aberdeen. Well connected to writers associated with the *Aberdeen Magazine*.
Emigrated to Canada but later returned to Elgin. Died c. 1863. Author of *Poetical
Ephemeras* (1831). Biographical information: *Modern Scottish Poets*, ninth series,
D. H. Edwards, 1886, pp. 79-80. (AC)