Surname: Dougall Forename(s): William b. 1829. Nationality: Scottish.
Poet and colliery agent. Pseudonym: “W. D.” Born in Dunkeld. Father was a cabinet
maker. Educated at Perth Academy. Prolific periodical contributor and well-connected
to major Scottish literary and political figures. Scottish agent for John Bowes Esquire
& Partners, a Newcastle colliery company. Honorary Secretary of Leith Sailors’ Home.
Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem “Tel-el-Kebir. September 13, 1882,” gives his address as
Springbank, Bonnington (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Modern Scottish Poets, eleventh series, D. H. Edwards, 1888, pp. 408-9. (AC)