Poet, song writer, and teacher. Born in Crieff c. 1849. Taught at Motherwell Iron
Works School in 1863, then appointed headmaster at Wishaw, Works School in Carfin,
and then Baird School, Garngad Hill, Glasgow. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry,
for his poem published on 13 July 1872, gives his address as Moss Bank School, Hogganfield,
Glasgow (NLS Dep 341/368). In 1879 he became Secretary to the Baird Trust. Co-author
of *The Luck of the Redesdales* (first published in *Glasgow Herald*). Prominent member
of the Glasgow Ballad Club. Biographical information: *Modern Scottish Poets*, edited
by D. H. Edwards, twelfth series, D. H. Edwards, 1889, pp. 313-14. (AC)