Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

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)