Poet. Born in Edinburgh. *Chambers’s Journal* ledger for his poem, published on 24
March 1883, gives his address as The Ferns, Gilmore Road, Lewisham (NLS Dep 341/369).
Author of *Songs of a Wayfarer* (1878), *Lay Canticles and Other Poems* (1883), and
*The Wrath of the Fay* (1887). Biographical information: Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*,
p. 229; Alfred H. Miles (ed.), *The Poets and the Poetry of the Century*, vol. 8,
Hutchinson & Co., 1898, pp. 702-3. (AC)