b. 1820. d. 18 October 1881. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, chartist, suffragist, devotional writer, and socialist. Authored hymns and tracts.
Had no formal schooling. Married Catherine Isabella Watkins on 4 October 1841. Author
of *The Poetry of Home and Childhood* (1853), *Scenes of Spring* (1860), *The Return
of the Swallow* (1864). Biographical information: *ODNB*. (AC)