Working-class poet and journeyman mason. Lived at Leetown, near Errol, Perthshire.
Apprenticed to his father. Author of *Songs and Poems by James Beattie, Journeyman
Mason*. Biographical information: headnote to his poem “The Peasant’s Song,” published
in *Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal* (18 October 1834); Peter Robert Drummond, *Perthshire
Poets: 1800 to 1850*, n.p., 1873. (AC)