Poet. Began his working life as a bookseller’s apprentice, became a lawyer’s clerk,
worked in the Liverpool Customs Office, and then became a journalist. Author of *Poems
of the Fancy and the Affections* (1843). Biographical information: *Curran Index*;
*The Modern Scottish Minstrel*, edited by Charles Rogers, vol. 5, Adam and Charles
Black, 1857, p. 263. (AC)