Poet and journalist. Born c. 1851. The *Chambers’s Journal* Authors’ Book entry for
Dean’s poem “The Ruined Abbey” (published 3 September 1891) gives his address as Dennistoun
(NLS Dep 341/294), the east end of Glasgow. A member of the Glasgow Ballad Club, according
to *Ballads and Poems*, third series (1908). Reilly notes that he lived in Tweedside.
Author of *Harp Strums* (1890), and worked for the *Kelso Chronicle* and the *Glasgow
Evening Citizen*. Biographical information: obituary, *Newspaper World and Advertising
Review*, 1930, p. 59; Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 131. (AC)