Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Religious poet. Born c. 1830. Father, originally from Yorkshire, had an upholsterer’s shop in Holborne, London. Family were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Composed poetry from a young age. Educated at Miss Jolly’s School in London. Author of the well received volume The Dream of Pythagorus, and Other Poems (1854). Biographical information: Rev. B. Gregory’s Memoir, in Emma Tatham, The Dream of Pythagorus, and Other Poems, Wesleyan Conference Office, fifth edition, 1872. (AC)