Darlington, 1879

? Hewitt, Richard (d. 1794), companion and amanuensis to the poet Blacklock (qv); author of ‘Roslin Castle’ and other Scottish lyrics. Ref: Eyre-Todd II, 86. [S]

? Hick, William, Leeds Chartist, author of The Chartist Song Book. Ref: Kovalev, 89-90; Shencker, 157-8, 334; Schwab, 194. [C]

Hicklin, John (b. 1805), apprenticed to a Nottingham hosiery firm, reading and writing in his leisure hours; abandoned a university course through ill-health but became joint proprietor of the Nottingham Journal. He was Secretary of the Nottingham Literary Society; later moved to Chester. Pub. Leisure Hours (Nottingham: G. Stretton, 1826), a vol. of poems and essays, and a History of Nottingham Castle. Ref Mellors.

Hickling, George (‘Rusticus’, c. 1827-1909), of Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, stocking-maker, educated at the village school, verses written ‘direct from the heart and home of one who is essentially a working man’, pub. The Mystic Land (1856); The Pleasures of Life and Other Poems (Nottingham and London, 1861). Ref: Mellors; inf. Bob Heyes; Reilly (1994), 224, Reilly (2000), 221.

Hill, E.S., working man of Nottingham and elsewhere, pub. Matthew Hart’s Dream; or, Discontent Disconcerted: A Ballad for Working Men, by one of themselves (Alfreton, Derby and London, 1862); The politics of the people: rhymed reason by a radical; by one of themselves (London, 1865); Russelas: A Political Poem, for “the people”; by one of themselves (London, 1865), Melodies of the Heart: Poems (London, 1867). Ref: Reilly (2000), 222.

? Hill, Mrs Robert, née Philippina Burton (fl. 1770-88), actress and playwright, widowed. She is jokingly chosen as ‘poet laureate’ (mentioned as ‘An am’rous, incoherent muse’) in the poem ‘The Petticoat Administration’ (by ‘Molly Machiavel’, in The new foundling hospital for wit. Being a collection of curious pieces in verse and prose, ed John Almon (London: 1771) The endnote to her last volume of poems notes that she was planning another publication. She published by subscription. Pub. Miscellaneous Poems, written by a Lady [Philippina Burton, afterwards Hill], being her first attempt. [With the Writer’s Autograph.] (London: 1768; 3 vol. BL 994.g.21); A Rhapsody, by Philippina Burton (London: 1769; Bodleian T.192971); an original ‘Epilogue’ from her character Constance in The Tragedy of King John in Gentlemen’s Magazine, Sept. 1770 following her well-received performance (485; ESTC no. P002032); (Poems on Several Occasions, 1775); A poem, Sacred to Freedom: and a poem, intitled, Beneficence (by ‘Mrs. Robert Hill’, Dublin, c. 1780 [BL 11646.cc.24]), full text on Google Books; Portraits, Characters, Pursuits and Amusements of the present fashionable world, interspersed with poetic flights of fancy (London: 1785? BL 992.g.4); The Diadem; or King David, a sacred poem; dedicated to her Majesty, (by ‘Mrs. Robert Hill’, Dublin, c. 1791 [BL Cup.408.tt.20], contains the footnote: ‘Mrs. Hill hath been advised to adopt the Christian Name of her late Husband for distinction sake’). Ref: ESTC/BLC; ECCO; Benjamin White, A new catalogue of books for the year 1770, consisting of several valuable libraries lately purchased…, item 4653. [F] [I] [—Katie Osborn]

? Hill, Thomas Ford (d. 1795), son of a glove-manufacturer of Worcester, Quaker, antiquary, collector of Antient Erse poems, collected among the Scottish highlands, in order to illustrate the Ossian of Macpherson (1784). Ref: ODNB.

Hird, James (1810-73), of Bingley, Yorkshire, self-taught poet, his father died when he was very young and he worked in a factory from age of six, later a brewery manager, councillor; pub. The Harp of the Willows (1834); The Prophetic Minstrel (1839); A Voice from the Muses (London and Bradford: Simpkin Marshall & Co and T. Brear, 1866). Ref: Forshaw, 84-7; Grainge, I, 241; Reilly (2000), 223; Newsham 223.

Hodgson, Joseph (1783-1856), of Blackburn, handloom weaver, sometime librarian of the Mechanics’ Institute, prolific poet, ‘the earliest...of the Blackburn poets’. Ref: Hull, 17-26.

Hogan, Michael (‘The Bard of Thomond’, 1832-99), of Thomond gate, County Limerick, labourer, bank governor for Limerick Corporation, pub. in The Nation and in small edition poetry pamphlets, and as follows: Lays and legends of Thomond, I (Limerick 1865); The story of Shawn-a-Scoob, Mayor of Limerick, who didn‘t know himself, nor anyone else, dedicated to the Corporation and the Catholic gentry of Limerick, by their grateful servant, the Bard of Thomond (Dublin, 1868-76, eight vols.). Ref: Reilly (2000), 226. [I]

Hogg, James (1770-1835), ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, major figure; pub. The Mountain Bard (1807), including a ‘Memoir of the Author’s Life’, and numerous other works. Ref: LC 4, 93-8; Borland, 98-126; Harp R, xlii-xliii; Miles, I, 173-210 and IX, 77-88; Macleod, 13-15; Wilson, I, 446-61; Burnett et al (1984), no. 337; Cafarelli, 84; Powell, items 244-9; Richardson, 247; Sutton, 461 (numerous manuscripts of poems and letters); Vincent, 14, 151; Valentina Bold, James Hogg: A Bard of Nature’s Making (Berne: Peter Lang, 2007); Studies in Hogg and His World (journal, ongoing). Hogg is the subject of a major multi-volume editorial project led by Edinburgh University Press and University of South Carolina Press. [LC 4] [S]

Hogg, John (b. 1839), of Kirkfieldbank, Lanarkshire, handloom weaver from nine, railwayman, pithead worker, pub. in Hamilton Advertiser. Ref: Edwards, 9, 163-6. [S]

Hogg, Robert (b. 1864), of Glasgow, engineer. Ref: Edwards, 7, 236-8. [S]

Hogg, William (1822-89), of Cambusnethan, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, cowherd, butcher, Burns enthusiast, pub. That Hielan’ Coo, and Other Poems (Glasgow, 1892). Ref: Edwards, 6, 370-4; Reilly (1994), 227. [S]

Hoggarth, James (b. 1834), of Ambleside, Westmorland, farmer’s son at Troutbeck, apprentice bobbin-manufacture, disabled by glaucoma and lost an eye, moved to Kendal, pub. Echoes from years gone by (Kendal, 1892). Ref: Reilly (1994), 227.

Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809), shoemaker, English Jacobin, wrote Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by Himself, and continued to the Time of his Death from his Diary (1816), and numerous popular comedies and some prose tales: Elegies. I. On the death of Samuel Foote, Esq. II. On Age (1777); Duplicity. A comedy (1781); The Family Picture; or domestic dialogues on amiable subjects (1783); Human Happiness: or the Sceptic. A poem in six cantos (1783); Songs, duets, glees, choruses &c. in the comic opera of The Noble Peasant (1784); The Choleric Fathers: a comic opera (1785); Seduction; a comedy (1787); The School for Arrogance. A comedy (1791); Anna St. Ives (1792); The Road to Ruin, A comedy (1792); Heigh-ho! for a Husband (Dublin, 1794); Love’s Frailties. A comedy in five acts (1794); The adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97); A letter to the Right Hon. W. Windham in the intemperance and dangerous tendency of his public conduct (1795); A Man of Ten Thousand. A comedy (1796); Knave or not? A Comedy in Five Acts (1798); A Tale of Mystery, a melodrama (1802); Hear both Sides. A Comedy (1803); Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland, and the Netherlands, to Paris (1804); The Lady of the Rock, a melo-drama in two acts (1805); Memoirs of Bryan Perdue. A novel (1805); The Theatrical Recorder (periodical publication, 1805-6); Tales in verse; critical, satirical and humorous (1806); The Vindictive Man: a comedy (1806); Gaffer Gray. A favourite song (n.d.); The Deserted Daughter (n.d.). Ref: ODNB; Winks, 304-8; Craik, I, 407-116; Meyenberg, 213; Sutton, (manuscript, receipt, letters); Hobsbawm & Scott.

Holder, Reuben (b. 1797), of Bradford, according to Vicinus ‘a licensed hawker who had started life as a trapper boy at five years, later became a brickmaker, and finally a seller of fish and poetry. As a strong teetotaller before the temperance movement, he wrote many poems against drink’ (24). Wrote numerous poems on contemporary and local events, as well as several regarding labor issues, especially ‘The New Starvation Law Examined – on the New British Bastiles’, online here: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/broadshe.html. Ref: Vicinus, 24-5; inf. Bridget Keegan.

Holdsworth, Israel (b. 1816), of Armley, Leeds, weaver, bookkeeper, bookseller, pub. The ivy wreath; being original poems (Leeds: printed & published by the Author, 1854) [BL]; The literary pic-nic, and other poems (Leeds, 1872). Ref: LC 5, 335-48; Reilly (2000), 227; COPAC. [LC 5]

Holkinson, Jacob (b. 1822), three weeks only of formal education, worked in a tobacco works from age 7, later farmworker and in the textile trade, pub. some of his poems in ‘various periodicals’; his autobiography, ‘The Life of Jacob Holkinson, Tailor and ‘Poet’ pub in The Commonwealth, 24, January 31st 1857 . Ref Burnett et al (1984), no. 340. [S]

? Hollamby, John, pub. The unlettered muse (Hailsham, 1828), includes list of subscribers. Ref: Johnson, item 446.

Holland, Joseph, farm labourer, pub: An Appendix to the Season of Spring, in the Rural Poem, ‘‘The Farmer’s Boy’’ (Croydon, 1806). Ref: Johnson, item 454.

Holloway, William (1761-1854), of Dorset, but moved to London in 1798 and remained the rest of his life, retiring in Hackney village in north London; friend and imitator of Robert Bloomfield (qv); trained as a journeyman printer; worked at the East India House and was a colleague of Charles Lamb; author of The Peasant’s Fate: a Rural Poem (London: Vernor and Hood, 1802; 4th edn 1821); The British Museum, or Elegant Repository of Natural History (prose work, with John Branch, London, 1803-4); The Chimney-Sweeper’s Complaint (1806, available on www.archive.org); The Minor Minstrel; or, Poetical Pieces, chiefly Familiar & descriptive (1808), includes ‘The Desolate Village—A Sketch from Nature’, ‘William the Thresher ’ and ‘To Robert Bloomfield on the Abolition of the Slave Trade’; ‘To Mr Bloomfield’ and other poems in Bloomfield, Remains (1824), I, 166-71. Ref: LC 4, 29-46; Barrell & Bull, 409-12; Sambrook, 1360. [LC 4] [—Katie Osborn]

? Holmes, Gilbert (b. 1868), of Paisley, colour dyer’s son, shopboy, engineer, poems in Brown. Ref: Brown, II, 518-24. [S]

Holroyd, Abraham (b. 1815), of Bradford, handloom weaver, soldier, editor and stationer, financially helped by Titus Salt, pub. poems in Yorkshire papers amd edited poetry vols, inc. A Garland of Poetry (Saltire, Bradford: 1873); pub. the local journal, The Bradfordian, providing an important outlet for local and dialect poets. Ref: Holroyd, 29; Andrews, 177-81 (citing William Smith, Old Yorkshire, II, 230-5); Forshaw, 88-97 (includes print of the poet); England, 7, 64; Vicinus (1974), 161, 171.

Holt, Jane, née Wiseman (d. 1717), playwright, servant to William Wright, recorder of Oxford, apparently had access to his extensive library; pub. The Fairy Tale…With Other Poems (1717); her Antiochus the Great acted at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1702. Ref: LC 1, 33-46; Lonsdale (1989), 72-3; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 876. [F] [LC 1]

Holyoake, George Jacob (‘Ion’, 1817-1906), Birmingham tinsmith and whitesmith, Chartist, secularist, imprisoned for blasphemy, pub. Blasts from Bradlaugh’s own trumpet: ballads, extracts, cartoons, versified, selected and sketched by ‘Ion’ (London, 1882), Songs of love & sorrow (Manchester and London, 1887). Ref: Reilly (1994), 229. [C]

Home, James (d. 1868), dry-stone dyker and poet. Ref: Shanks, 154-6. [S]

? Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), engraver, humorist, author of The Song of the Shirt (1843). Nearly all of his writings first appeared in middle-class magazines and annuals: The Gem, London Magazine, the Athenaeum, New Monthly Magazine, and Punch. Pub Comic Annuals (1830-9), collected writings in Whims and Oddities (1826-1827) and Whimsicalities (1844). Ref: ODNB; Schenker, 159-60, 334; Goodridge (1999); item 54, LION; Miles, III, 215 & IX, 249-70; Ricks, 66-74.

Hopkin [Hopcyn], Lewis (fl. 1720s), of Llabedr-ar-fynydd, Welsh carpenter poet, later settled at Hendre-Ifan-Goch; one of the Glamorgan Grammarians, possibly bardic tutor of Iolo Morganwyg and Edward Evans. Pub: Y Fel Gafod (1812). Ref: OCLW, inf. Tim Burke. [W]

? Horn, Miss Margaret, pub. poem, ‘Suspension Bridge,’ issued from The Poet’s Box, Glasgow. Ref: inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Horsfield, Louisa Adelaide (1830-65), the wife of a collier at Blacker Hill, Barnsley, pub. The Cottage Lyre: Being Miscellaneous Poetry (Leeds: J. Parrott, 1862), two editions. Ref: Holroyd, 116; ABC, 516-18; Reilly (2000), 232. Link: wcwp [F]

Horsley, James (d. 1891), of Alnwick, orphaned in Newcastle, worked as a stable boy, cabin boy, journalist/writer, songwriter. Pub. Lays of Jesmond Dene (1891; copy at NTU). There is a tribute in Matthew Tate’s (qv) Songs, Poems and Ballads (1898), in a poem addressed to ‘Jesmond Dene’ (a ribbon of wooded parkland following the southward course of the river Ouseburn, which joins the Tyne to the east of Newcastle): ‘I thought upon poor Horsley too / ’Mong local bards there’s none were sweeter / How oft he’d rove thy mazes through / And wove together links of metre; / How often thou hadst been his god, / Bear witness, oh, his book of carols, / He’s sleeping now beneath the sod, / reposing on his well-won laurels’ (ll. 17-24, p. 166). Ref: Allan, 495-501.

Hosken, James Dryden, postman poet of Helston, Cornwall, pub. Phaeon and Sappho, and Nimrod [two verse-dramas] (London: Macmillan, 1892); Verses by the Way with a Critical and Biographical Introduction by ‘Q’ [Hosken’s fellow Cornishman Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (London: Methuen, [1893]). Charles Cox offers an interesting sidenote: under the name of Charles Granville, Hoskens’ brother, a double bigamist and convicted fraudster, was briefly the publisher of Ezra Pound and Katherine Mansfield. Ref: inf. Bob Heyes; Charles Cox, catalogue 68 (2015), item 75; NTU (one of a hand-numbered limited edition, 27/75; it also has press cuttings pasted on the front endpapers).

Hossack, Annie Dennison, of Burray, Orkney, domestic servant, dressmaker. Ref: Edwards, 12, 182-5. [F] [S]

Houlding, Henry (d. 1901), of Burnley, factory worker, journalist, pub., an account of a foot journey to London, and Poems (Burnley, 1874). Ref: Reilly (2000), 233.

Howard, Nathaniel, a charity boy, Bickleigh Vale, with other poems (York, 1804). Ref: Johnson, item 465.

Howatson, Bella (b. 1863), of Tarbrax, coachman and surfacemen’s daughter, educated until age fourteen, and learned to love poetry and folk-lore from her mother. She became a farm servant at 16, but later returned home to help her mother, and published in local newspapers such as the Hamilton Advertiser and the Annandale Observer. Her verses include ‘Another Baby,’ ‘The Dying Child’s Words,’ ‘Dreamland,’ ‘Only,’ and ‘His Last Look’. Ref: Edwards, 11, 162; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Howden, Robert (b. 1776), wrote numerous unpublished poems including the satirical ‘The Raven and Mavis’, and the humorous story, The King’s Welcome to Edinburgh (1822). Ref: Edwards, 2, 34-6. [S]

? Howden, Walter Cranston (b. 1851), of Penicuik, later of Dundee, watchmaker and jeweller, pub. in Chamber’s Journal, the Quiver, People’s Friend and other magazines. Ref: Reid, Bards, 227-8; Edwards, 4, 354-60. [S]

Howell, John (1774-1830), ‘Ioan ab Ywel’, ‘Ioan Glandyfroedd’, apprenticed as a weaver. Edited anthology Blodau Dyfed [‘The Flowers of Dyfed’, OCLW] (1824); the first attempt to anthologize welsh poets regionally; Blodau includes poetry by Ieuan Brydydd Hir (Evan Evans, qv), Eliezer Williams, Daniel Ddu o Geredigion (Daniel Evans), Iaco ab Dewi (James Davies), Edward Richard, and Ioan Siengcin (John Jenkins), all Anglicans; also pub. other titles in Welsh. Ref: OCLW; ODNB/DNB. [W] [—Katie Osborn]

Hoyle, William (1831-86), of Rossendale, Lancashire, cotton spinner, temperance Reformer, vegetarian, pub. Daisy ballads and recitations (London and Manchester, 1891). Ref: ODNB; Reilly (1994), 235.

Huddleston, Robert (1814-1887), of Moneyreagh, pub. A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects (1844); A Collection of Poems and Songs on Different Subjects (1846); and numerous poems in Ulster Magazine (1860-63). Ref ODNB; Hewitt. [I]

? Hudson, Thomas (b. 1791), publican-entertainer, comic songwriter/singer and broadside balladeer, stationer, grocer, tea-dealer, music seller; kept the Kean’s head tavern in Covent Garden. Pub. at least fourteen collections of comic songs from c. 1818-32 including Comic Songs (Printed by Gold and Walton for T. Hudson, 1818); Songs (1820); Comic Songs: Collection the Third (1825). Ballad titles show a predictable mixture of stock ‘types’ and topical references, e.g. ‘The Petticoat and Breeches’, ‘Billy Bumpkin’s Peep at the Coronation’, ‘The Dog’s Meat Man’, ‘The Age of New Inventions’. Ref: Hepburn, I, 43; II, 429-30, 554 notes; Charles Cox, Catalogue 68 (2015), items 78-82.

Hugh, Alexander (b. 1854), of Kirkcaldy, grocer, pub. poems in the newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 13, 232-4. [S]

Hughes, John Ceiriog (1832-87), Welsh railwayman, born at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, friend and mentee of R. J. Derfel, ‘Creuddynfab’ (William Williams), and Robert Davies (all qqv); pub. Oriau'r Hwyr (1860), Oriau'r Bore (1862), Cant o Ganeuon (1863), Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865), Oriau Eraill (1868), Oriau'r Haf (1870), Oriau Olaf (1888). Author of ‘what is probably the best-loved poem in the Welsh language’, quoted in relation to the Gleision Mine tragedy, September 2011: ‘Aros mae’r mynyddau mawr, / Thuo trostyny mae y gwynt’, ‘The mighty hills unchanging stand, / tireless the winds across them blow’. Ref: Jan Morris, The Guardian, 16 September 2011; OCLW. [W]

? Hugman, John, of Halesworth, itinerant tanner, travelled the south-east selling his own books and prints as he went; pub. Original poems, in the moral, heroic, pathetic, and other styles, by a traveller (fourth edition, Cambridge, 1825; seventeenth edition, Halesworth, 1825); total of eighteen editions between 1825 and 1836, mainly published around the south-east (mostly in Suffolk), ‘an interesting example of wide circulation being due not...to the merit of the work but to unprecedented efforts at distribution by the author’ (Johnson); Charles Lamb owned a copy. Ref: Johnson, item 469, Cranbrook, 208-9; inf. Bob Heyes.

? Huish, Alexander, Chartist poet, author of ‘The Radical’s Litany’. Ref: Sheckner, 161-2. [C]

? Hull, George (b. 1863), of Blackburn, clerk, son of a coal merchant, school educated, author of The heroes of the heart, and other lyrical poems (Preston and London, 1894); (ed) Poets and Poetry of Blackburn (Blackburn, 1902). Ref: Hull, xii-xxxii, Maidment (1987), 170-1, 277-8, Reilly (1994), 236.

Humbles, John (fl. 18260, a Bedfordshire peasant, pub. Thoughts on the Creation, Fall, and Regeneration, ed. Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1826). Ref DNB and Wikipedia ‘Wiffen’ entries.

? Hume, Alexander (1811-1859), of Edinburgh, chairmaker, chorister, musician and poet. Published frequently in Edinburgh's Scottish Press and edited The Lyric Gems of Scotland (1856), ‘to which he made over fifty contributions of his own’ (ODNB). Ref: ODNB; Glasgow Poets, 305-09; Ulster Magazine, Jan 1863. [S]

? Hunter, Andrew (fl. 1921), of Airdrie, police sergeant, staff member at the Coatbridge Gas Light Company. Ref: Knox, 121-43, [S] [OP]

Hunter, Charles Fergus (b. 1846), apprentice tinsmith, railwayman, pub. poems in The Scotsman. Ref: Edwards 9, 30-2. [S]

Hunter, James (b. 1830), calico printer’s tearer, baker, restauranteur, spent time in Canada; poems in Macleod. Ref: Macleod, 219-25. [S]

? Hunter, John (1807-85), of Tealing, ‘The Mountain Muse’, mason, teacher, preacher to the Chartist congregation, later a congregationalist minister; chaplain in the Poorhouse, Old Machar. Ref: Reid, Bards, 228-9. [S] [C]

Hunter, Robert (b. 1854), of Hawick, powerloom tuner, pub. poems in newspapers and Masonic Magazine. Ref: Edwards, 3, 250-3 [S]

Huntington, William (1745-1813), former surname “Hunt,” illegitimate tenth son of a Kentish labourer, worked as a servant and numerous other occupations, Methodist preacher; changed his name from Hunt after an affair went sour. Pub. The Kingdom of Heaven Taken by Prayer (1784); God the Guardian of the Poor and the Bank of Faith (2 pts, 1785–1802); The Naked Bow, or, A Visible Display of the Judgments of God on the Enemies of Truth (1794); and posthumously, Gleanings of the Vintage, 2 vols., 1814; Posthumous Letters, three vols. in 1815 and one in 1822. Collected letters published in Epistles of Faith (2 pts, 1785–97); Living Testimonies (2 pts, 1794–1806); Correspondence between Noctua Aurita and Philomela (1799); The Spiritual Birth. A divine poem (1789), and many sermons and other items. Ref: Unwin 77; ODNB; E. Hopp, The Celebrated Coalheaver (1871). [—Katie Osborn]

? Hurn, David, farmer of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, pub. Rural Rhymes, or, a collection of epistolary, humorous and descriptive pieces (Spalding and London, 1813). Ref: Clare, Early Poems, I, 567n102-3, 573n302-3, II, 323-4 and note.

Hurrey, John (fl. 1845), of Spalding, son of a fisherman; later became a clerk and a potato salesman in London, before emigrating to Australia where he died shortly after. Pub. The Cottager's Sabbath and other poems (Spalding: Thomas Albin and London: C.A. Bartlett, 1845). Ref inf. Rodney and Pauline Lines, from the Old Lincolnshire Magazine, 1883-5.

Hutcheon, Rebecca (b. 1851), of Bowglens, at head of Glen of Drumtochty, in the parish of Fordoun; aged 8 began work as cowherder, and since then did housework, lived in Aberdeen; verses include ‘Childhood’s Days,’ ‘Life—A Journey.’ Ref: Edwards, 3, 223; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Hutchinson, John. (b. 1851), of Links, Kirkcaldy, glass-worker, sailcloth tenter, pub. How to make life worth living, or golden thoughts in prose and verse (R. Symon, 1889; 108 pp). Ref: Edwards, 13, 183-6. [S]

Hyslop, James (1798-1827), sometimes ‘Hislop’, of Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire, illegitimate child, self-taught famrworker and shepherd, schoolmaster on board a man-of-war, wrote ‘The Cameronian’s Dream’ (1825) and other poems about the Covenanters; pub. Poems, with a Sketch of his life by the Rev Peter Mearns (Glasgow: Wright, 1887). Ref: Shanks, 129-35; Hood, 424; Edwards, 7, 73-82; Miller, 226-30; Wilson, II, 181-90. [S]