Surname: Hodges Forename(s): J. Sydney Wills b. 4 April 1829. d. 1900. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and portrait painter. Pseudonym: “Pictor.” Born in Worthing, Sussex. Lived for
a period in Devon, and also in London. Secretary of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic
Society (1857-1865). Had a poem included in Burns Centenary Poems (1859). Author of The Battle of Hastings and Other Poems (1853). Biographical information: W. H. Kearley Wright (ed.), West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works, Elliot Stock, 1896, p. 254; Wood 227. (AC)