Poet, novelist, and clergyman. Born in Leeds, Yorkshire. Educated at St. Bees in Cumbria.
Ordained in 1852. Curate of Tosside, near Settle, in 1856, according to the title
page of his 1856 *Poems*. Appointed vicar of West Acklam, Middlesbrough-on-Tees, Yorkshire
in 1865. Author of *A Broken Heart* (1873), *Ironopolis* (1874), and *Chronicles of
the Coniston Family* (1887). Biographical information: *At the Circulating Library*;
William Andrews (ed.), *North Country Poets*, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Abel Heywood
and Son, and A. Brown & Sons, 1888, p. 113; NLS Dep 341/368. (AC, CC)