Working-class poet, writing in Scots and English. Born in Dumbarton Castle. Apprenticed
as a shoemaker, and also worked as a stable boy, before moving to Glasgow where he
had his own business that eventually went bankrupt. Worked for the publisher Menzies
& Co. in Glasgow. Author of *Light, Shade, and Toil: Poems* (1875). Biographical information:
Reilly, *Mid-Victorian Poetry*, p. 80; Goodridge. (AC, CC)