Poet. Pseudonym: “Rob Wanlock.” Born in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire. Aside from a short
period in Belfast, lived in Glasgow until emigrating to Montreal in 1877. Worked for
the Glasgow manufacturing firm Stewart & M’Donald and then the shawl manufacturer
William Cross. President of the Montreal Burns Club (1902-1905). Author of *Moorland
Rhymes* (1874) and *Poems, Songs, and Sonnets* (1894). Biographical information: Reilly,
*Mid-Victorian Poetry*, p. 387. (AC)