b. 16 August 1812. d. 4 January 1898. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, schoolmaster, and clergyman. Educated at the University of Edinburgh. Parish
schoolmaster in the Newlands Valley, Cumbria. Rector of Irvine Academy, Ayrshire.
Author of *Hallowed Ground and Other Poems* (1876). Biographical information: *Curran
Index*. (CC)