Poet. Born in Dumbarton Castle to working-class parents. Apprenticed as a shoemaker
and moved to Glasgow where he had his own business that eventually went bankrupt.
Worked for the publisher Menzies & Co. in Glasgow. Wrote some poetry in Scots. Author
of *Light, Shade, and Toil: Poems* (1875). Biographical information: Reilly, *Mid-Victorian
Poetry*, p. 80. (AC, CC)