Poet, playwright, and school teacher. Pseudonym: “The White Rose.” Born in Glasgow.
Educated at Hutcheson’s Grammar School and the University of Glasgow. Taught at Kilbain
Academy, Greenock. Poetry volumes include *In Glasgow Streets, and Other Poems* (1898).
Biographical information: Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 25; *Modern Scottish
Poets*, thirteenth series, D. H. Edwards, 1890, pp. 234-5; Archives Hub <https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/3be41fc9-9dcf-319a-8e78-c33ceb02c184>
(14 December 2019). The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for his poem “The Moor Loch,”
published on 3 March 1900, lists his address as 11 Carnarvon St, Glasgow (NLS Dep
341/371).(AC)