Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Born c. 1850 in Antwerp, Belgium. Alternative signature: F. H. Wood. Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in 1872. Perpetual curate at St. Paul’s in Northampton (1882-1888). Author of Echoes of the Night, and Other Poems (1873). Author information from Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for At the Mill, published on 15 May 1886, which lists the poet as F. H. Wood, of 4 St Paul’s Terrace, Northampton (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 506. (AC, CC)