b. 19 December 1828. d. 29 January 1910. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, diarist, civil servant. 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*.
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