b. 7 June 1871. d. 14 November 1934. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Working-class poet, novelist, editor, and journalist. Alternative signature: “J. J.
Bell.” Born in Glasgow. Father was a tobacco manufacturer. Educated at Kelvinside
Academy and the University of Glasgow. Author of poetry volume *The New Noah’s Ark*
(1899). Worked for the *Glasgow Evening Times* and sub-editor of *The Scots Pictorial*.
*Chambers’s Journal* ledger lists his address as Northcote, Dowanhill, Glasgow (poem
published 5 February 1898; NLS Dep 341/371). Additional biographical information:
Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 39.