Working-class poet. Born in the village of Rothes at Speyside. Father was a crofter.
Received little formal education. Worked as a herder and then a gardener. Author of
*The Captain Chief, a Tale of Flodden Field* (1871) and *Northumbria; The Captain
Chief, and Other Poems* (1881). Biographical information: David Herschell Edwards,
*Modern Scottish Poets*, D. H. Edwards, 1887; Goodridge. (AC)