Poet. Alternative signature: “J. R. Eastwood.” Author of *Poems for Little People
and those of Larger Growth* (1887, 1896) and *Fireside Poems* (1896). Also lived at
138 Bedford Road, Rock Ferry, Cheshire. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for
their poem, published on 2 October 1875, gives his name as “J. R. Eastwood” and his
address as Ruby House, Willaston, near Chester (NLS Dep 341/368). Reilly, *Late Victorian
Poetry*, p. 148. (AC, CC)