Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and Catholic clergyman. Pseudonym: “Jos. Carmichael.” Prior of St. Benedict’s Abbey in Fort Augustus. Author of “The Scottish Monasteries of Old: A Brief Account of the Houses which existed in Scotland before the Protestant Reformation for monks following the rule of St. Benedict* (1913). *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for “A Song of Hope,” published on 3 November 1900, lists the poet as Rev. M. Barrett, of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: *Sadliers’ Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo*, D. & J. Sadler & Co., 1889 , p. 133; *The Scottish Historical Review*, vol. 11, 1914, pp. 227-28; *Ancestry*. (AC, CC)