Poet. Born in Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to *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.
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