b. 4 March 1858. d. 22 March 1908. Nationality: Scottish.
Translator, essayist, folklorist, wool manufacturer, and politician. Pseudonym: “J.
W. C.” Educated at the University of Aberdeen. Liberal M. P. for Kincardineshire (1892-1908).
Author of *Some Poets of the People in Foreign Lands* (1890, 1891). *Chambers’s Journal*
ledger entry for his translation “The Old Nursery Story,” published on 24 July 1880,
gives his address as Balgownie Lodge, Aberdeen (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information:
Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo> (18 March 2021).(AC)