Poet and soldier. Alternative signature: “F. B. Doveton.” Born in Exeter, Devon. Joined
the Royal Canadian Rifles in 1861 and the Army Control Depot in 1868 until retirement
in 1871. *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for his poem “On the Bridge,” published
21 July 1883, gives his address as Grange Lodge, 10 Grange Gardens, Eastbourne (NLS
Dep 341/369). Author of *Snatches of Song* (1880), *Sketches in Prose and Verse* (1886),
and *Songs Grave and Gay* (1893). Biographical information: Reilly, *Late Victorian
Poetry*, p. 143. (AC)