Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and clergyman in the Church of England and Scottish Episcopal Church. Educated at Christ Church College, Oxford. Ordained a priest in 1858. Became the Chaplain to the Duke of Marlborough in 1858. Rector of several parishes in England (1867-1883). Moved to Scotland. Rector of St John’s, Edinburgh (1883-1898). Canon of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (1898-1909). Married. Author of Lectures on the Gospel According to St. John (1863). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for “In Greek Waters,” published on 18 June 1892, lists the poet as Rev. G. J. Cowley Brown, of 9 Grosvenor St, Edinburgh (NLS Dep 341/370). Biographical information: BL; Crockford, p. 85; Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_James_Cowley-Brown> (12 October 2021). (AC, CC)