Poet. Born in Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to the
*People’s Friend*. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for his “Song,” published
on 1 January 1881, does not give an address (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information:
Alexander G. Murdoch, *The Scottish Poets Recent and Living*, Thomas D. Morrison,
1893, p. 430. (AC, CC)