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Anderson, David, mechanic, of Aberdeen, pub. The Scottish Village: A Rural Poem (Aberdeen, 1808); The Martial Achievements of Sir William Wallace: An Historical Play (Aberdeen, 1821); Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Aberdeen, 1826, two edns); King Robert Bruce, or the Battle of Bannockburn: An Historical Play by the Author of The Scottish Village (1833). Ref: CBEL3, 224. [S]


Anderson, Edward (1736-1843), son of a small-scale pre-enclosure farmer; after a rudimentary education worked as a shepherd, then at the age of about 15 joined the Lisbon Trading Company as an ordinary seaman, eventually rising to be a ship’s master. He is described by one nineteenth-century source as a ‘master mariner’; his career began at Scarborough, according to the poem. Pub. Poems, a description of a shepherd (Workington, 1792); The Sailor: A Poem: Description of his going to sea, and through various scenes of life ... with observations on the town of Liverpool (Leeds: Anderson, 1792), which went through many editions in the north east and Yorkshire in the nineteenth century and was reprinted by local historians in Hull in 1986. Grainge extracts some lines that ‘answer the double purpose of a biographic sketch and present a specimen of his poetical talent’; they begin: ‘Though I but little education had, /The muses often charmed me when a lad: / Brought up a shepherd, though a farmer’s son, / My clothing then it mostly was home-spun’. The lines continue with a picture of sturdy self-reliance and simple food (‘On Yorkshire Wolds we mostly barley eat’). Ref: Grainge, I, 302-3 (also a press cutting headed ‘Edward Anderson’s Poems’, reproduced at the back of the British Library reprint of Grainge I, presumably because it was tucked into the BL copy); Burnett et al (1984), no. 15; Johnson, item 15; Shattock (1999), 223-4; inf. Stephen Harrison; Google Books and WorldCat online book catalogue; http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/aedwardanderson.php (visited 18 June 2014).

Anderson, George W. (b. 1856), of Muir of Rhynie, soldier poet. Ref: Edwards, 14, 17-30. [S]

Anderson, James, Northumbrian miner, worked at Elswick colliery, won prizes for dialect songs in 1870, pub. The ‘Newcastle Chronicle’ Prize Song, and Sundry other pieces, respectfully dedicated to the miners of Durham and Northumberland. By James Anderson, one of their number (Newcastle upon Tyne: J.M. Carr, 1870). Ref: Allan, 519; MBP3, item 86.

Anderson, Jessie Ann or Jessie Annie (‘Patience’, b. 1861) of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, self-taught mason’s daughter, unable to attend school due to spinal injury; Edwards records that she pub. poems in newspapers; Gifford and Macmillan list a prolific series of later vols, those up to 1908 pub. by Milne & Stephen, Aberdeen: Across the Snow (1894); Songs in Season (1901); Songs of Hope and Courage (1902); An Old-world Sorrow and other sonnets (1903); Legends and Ballads of Women (1904); Lyrics of Childhood (1905); A Handful of Heather (1906); The Book of the Wonder Ways (1907); Flower Voices (1908); Dorothy’s Dream of the Months (London: Horace Cox, 1909); Breaths from the Four Winds (Aberdeen: Milne & Stephen, 1911); This is Nonsense: Verses Light and Satirical (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Press & Journal, 1926); A Singer’s Year (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Press & Journal, 1928). Ref: Edwards, 8, 77-83; Gifford and Macmillan, 679. [F] [S]

Anderson, John (1820-?1862 or 1890), of Musselburgh, son of a soldier, of minimal education, apprenticed to a leather merchant; pub. In memory of John Anderson and Mary Christine Anderson (Edinburgh, 1863) [his sister Mary Christine had died in 1842 aged 16]; The weal and woe of Caledonia [poems], with an Introduction by Fergus Ferguson (Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League, and London); Edwards gives his death date as 1890, Reilly as 1862. Ref: Edwards, 7, 308-14 and 16, [lix]; Reilly (2000), 12. [S]

? Anderson, John, ‘Alpha Beta’, (b. 1879), of Dumfries, clothier and great-great grandson of a clothier, pub. poems in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard and other papers; Wayfaring Songs (Glasgow and Dalbeattie: Fraser, Angus & Co, [post-1912]). Ref: Miller, 314-15. [S] [OP]

? Anderson, Joseph, pub. The Artless Muse; or attempts in verse, on different subjects (Peterhead, 1818), includes poem on Shenstone. Ref: Johnson, item 16. [S]

Anderson, Lizzie D. (fl. 1895), born at the farm of Cairnrobin, about five miles south of Aberdeen; her family moved to become tenants in the parish of New Machar, and later to Thainstone, Kintore, where she continued to live with her brother, the tenant; in later years she suffered ill health; pub. poems in the Aberdeen Free Press and other newspapers; poems include ‘There’s Mair Things Caw’d Doun Than the Brig Oer the Tay’, ‘Autumn’, ‘The Home of My Childhood’, and ‘The Dying Girl and the Flowers’. Ref: Edwards, 8, 89-95; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Anderson, Matthew (b. 1864), of Waterside, Dalmellington, Ayrshire, farmboy, coalminer, soldier and special constable; pub. Poems of a Policeman (Paisley, Edinburgh and London, 1898). Ref: Reilly (1994), 14; MBP3, item 88. [S]

Anderson, Peter (b. 1864), of Shetland, brother to Basil Ramsay Anderson (qv), draper of Edinburgh and Montrose. Ref: Edwards, 15, 94-6. [S]



Anderson, Robert (1770-1833), pattern-drawer and calico printer of Carlisle. Anderson received some education at the Quaker school of Carlisle—surely helping to instill in him a veneration of equality – but had to turn to hard labour at the age of ten to assist his ‘poor father’. He was apprenticed as a calico printer – using any spare money to obtain copies of Addison, Pope, Fielding and Smollet – and later as a pattern drawer. During the five years he spent in London, he was exploited terribly, and was ‘confined to a wretched garret’ for several months until a sister came to his aid. The mock pastoral Scottish-style songs Anderson heard on visiting Vauxhall Gardens simultaneously disgusted him and roused his poetic sensibilities. ~ Anderson’s earliest poem, Lucy Gray of Allendale, was inspired by a tale he heard from a Northumbrian rustic, about a village beauty—‘fairer than any flow’r that blows’—who died at seventeen, and was thereafter followed by her lover. He was granted free admission to the gardens after the song was performed to ‘great applause’. The story also seemingly informed Wordsworth’s own ‘Lucy Gray’. Anderson published his first collection, Poems on various Subjects, in 1798, which included ‘The Slave’, conveying his indignation at the slave trade: ‘Torn from every dear connection, / Forc’d across the yielding wave, / The Negro, stung by keen reflection, / May exclaim, Man's but a slave!’ It was not until 1805 that Anderson published his best-known work, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, a selection taken from verse and prose featured in a local newspaper, delineating the manners and customs of his native land. Caine (2004) writes: ‘since he drew his materials from real life, Anderson was much feared for his personal attacks; he had a keen eye for the ludicrous, and pictured with fidelity the ale-drinking, guzzling, and cock-fighting side of the character of the Cumbrian farm labourer’. ~ Following the death of his father in 1807, Anderson went to work in Belfast via a pilgrimage to the grave of Robert Burns, which affected him greatly, as did the ‘distressing scenes’ of poverty in the countryside outside Belfast. In his memoir, he wrote, ‘it is much to be lamented that no provision whatever is held out by the British government to the poor of Ireland’. The two-volume edition of Anderson’s Poetical Works appeared in 1820, at a time when his local reputation drew subscriptions from Wordsworth and Southey. ~ In his twilight years Anderson’s life became marred by bouts of intemperance and acute poverty, and he was haunted by the prospect of ending his life in St Mary’s workhouse. He died in Carlisle on 26 September 1833. Pub. Poems on Various Subjects (London: J. Mitchell, 1798); Ballads in the Cumbrian dialect (Carlisle, 1805, London, 1881); Poetical Works of Robert Anderson: to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself, 2 vols. (Carlisle: B. Scott, 1820; subscribers include Wordsworth and Southey); Anderson’s Cumberland Ballads and Songs. A Centenary Edition, ed. Revd T. Ellwood (Ulverston: W. Holmes, 1904); Selections from the Cumberland Ballads of Robert Anderson, ed. George Crowther (Ulverston: W. Holmes, 1907). Ref: Robert Anderson, the Cumberland Bard. A Centenary Celebration Souvenir (Carlisle, 1933); ODNB; Keith Gregson ‘The Cumberland Bard: Anniversary Reflections’, Folk Music Journal 4 (1983), 33-66; W. Kemeza ‘Robert Anderson, “The Slave” (1798)’ (1999) [http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/asp/rasla.html]; ODNB; Miles, X, v; Allan, 167-8; Ashraf (1975), 117-18; Burnett et al (1984), no. 16a; Cafarelli, 83-4; Johnson, items 17-22, 64, 573, 743, 795; Basker, 528-9; Sutton, 14 (manuscripts of poems and letters); http://www.archive.org/stream/cumberlandballad00andeuoft/cumberlandballad00andeuoft_djvu.txt; Mike Huggins, ‘Popular Culture and Sporting Life in the Rural Margins of Late Eighteenth-Century England: The World of Robert Anderson, “The Cumberland Bard”’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 4, no. 2 (Winter 2012), 189-205. [LC 3] [—Iain Rowley]

Anderson, Thomas (1810-88), of Fordyce, Banffshire, herdboy, shoemaker, printer, pub. Poems and Songs (Aberdeen, 1844). Ref: Edwards, 14, 160-6. [S]

Anderson, William (1793-1885), of Paisley, weaver and later bookseller, pub. the New Paisley Repository (1835). Ref: Brown, I, 276-78. [S]

Anderson, William (1802-67), of Aberdeen, weaver, policeman. Ref: Edwards, 2, 234-9. [S]

Andrew, John, ‘Werdna’, (1801-71), of Ayr, weaver, bookbinder, upholsterer, shopman. Ref: Edwards, 4, 290-5. [S]

Andrews, John (d. 1869), of Paisley, lead drawer and dealer in weaving utensils, shawl manufacturer, temperance campaigner and poet. Ref: Brown, I, 418-22. [S]

Angus, William Cargill (b. 1870), of Arbroath, Angus, apprentice tinsmith, soldier, served seven years in the Black Watch, pub. Under the shadow: songs of labour and of love (Arbroath, 1896). Ref: Edwards, 15, 122-6; Reid, Bards, 14-16; Reilly (1994), 15. [S]

? Aram, Eugene (1704-59), son of the gardener and poet Peter Aram (qv), a poet as well as a philologist, and famously a murderer whose sensational story inspired much writing including Thomas Hood’s poem ‘The Dream of Eugene Aram’ and Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Eugene Aram (1832). Newsam and Grainge briefly sample his poetry. Ref Newsam 65-8; Grainge I, 163.

Aram, Peter (1667-1735), fisherman’s son of Clifton, Notts., later Sir John Ingilby’s steward and gardener at Ripley Castle, naturalist and poet, author of Studley Park, ‘a well-informed, eloquently turned contribution to the tradition of local descriptive poetry’ (ODNB), published in Thomas Gent, The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Ripon (York, 1733), and a prose Practical Treatise of Flowers, unpublished in his lifetime. Father of the notorious and unfortunate Eugene Aram (qv). Ref: LC 1, 255-74; Grainge, I, 138-9; ODNB; Frank Felsenstein (ed), Peter Aram, ‘A Practical Treatise of Flowers’, Proc. Leeds Phil. & Lit. Soc., XX, part i (Leeds, 1985), which includes a biography. (F). [LC 1]

? Archer, William (b. 1843), ‘Sagittarius’, of Carnoustie, served 10 years as an apprentice seaman, then a senior customs officer. Ref: Edwards, 4, 105-9; Reid, Bards, 20-22. [S]

Archibald, James (1817-87), of Paisley, weaver, lived in Tannahill’s former house, wrote poems in praise of Tannahill. Ref: Brown, II, 72-76. [S]

Armstrong, Andrew James (b. 1848), Scottish poet, orphan, errand boy, cabinet-maker, pub. Ingleside Musings and Tales Told in Rhyme (Dalbeattie, 1890). Ref: Reilly (1994), 17; Edwards, 5, 253-7. [S]

Armstrong, A.W., Irish sailor, pub. O’Neil’s Farewell. A Poem (North Shields: W. Orange, 1816), a criminal narrative by the convict’s friend. Ref: Johnson, item 25; Johnson 46, item 262. [I]

Armstrong, Tommy (1848-1920), of Tanfield, County Durham, pitman poet, pub. numerous broadsheet poems and songs; modern collected editions include Tommy Armstrong Sings, introduced by Tom Gilfellon (Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971); Pollisses and Candymen, ed by Ross Forbes (Consett: Tommy Armstrong Memorial Trust, 1987); Ray Tilley, Tommy Armstrong: The Pitman Poet (Newcastle upon Tyne: Summerhill Books, 2010). His verses and songs are still sung on the folk circuit, for example ‘Trimdon Grange Explosion’, sung by Maureen Craik on the multi-contributer CD Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside (Topic 1965, 1977), and in his own arrangement by Martin Carthy (The Definitive Collection, CD, Topic, 2002). Ref: ODNB; http://www.pitmanpoet.derwentside.org.uk/; sources as cited.

Armstrong, William (‘Willie’ Armstrong, b. 1804), of Newcastle upon Tyne, shoemaker’s son, painter, author of ‘Lizzie Mudie’s Ghost’ and other popular songs, pub. in miscellanies, 1823-42. Ref: Allan, 215-21.

Arneil, William (b. 1856), of Paisley, tanner, at age 15 wrote poem to Tannahill pub. in Paisley Herald, wrote poems on current political events. Ref: Brown, II, 458-68. [S]

? Arnott, John (fl. 1846), of Somers Town, Chartist leader and popular Chartist poet ‘of the circle round Northern Star’ (Shwab). Ref: Kovalev, 116-17; Scheckner, 329; Shwab 183. ODNB notes a John Arnott (contemp. with this entry), who fathered a first baronet of the same name. The father, of Greenfield, Auchtermuchty, d. 1878. [C]

Ash, Charles Bowker (1781-1864), of Adbaston, Staffs., farmer’s son, walker, actor, pub. Adbaston: A Poem (London: G & S Robinson, 1814; BL 11658.ee.5)The Hermit of Hawkestone (Bath, 1816); A Layman’s Epistle to a Certain Nobleman (London: Rodwell and Martin, 1824; BL 11643.bbb.18); Poetical Works (London, 1831). Ref: Poole & Markland, 138-41.

As(h)ton, Robert (fl. 1725-27), shoemaker poet, pub. A Congratulatory Poem to the Reverend Daen [sic] Swift (Dublin, 1725); Poem in honor of the Loyal Society of Journeymen Shoe-makers. On the Feast of St. Crispin (Dublin, 1725, 1726); A Satyr on the Journey-Man Taylors (Dublin, 1725); A poem on the birthday of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, of ever glorious memory, dedicated to Reverend Dean Swift (Dublin, 1726-7). He also wrote a play, ‘The battle of Aughrim: or, the fall of Monsieur St. Ruth. A tragedy’ (ESTC, ECCO). Ref: Christmas, 69; ESTC; O’Donoghue, 15. [I]

Askham, John (1825-94) of Wellingborough, Northants., shoemaker, later librarian of the Literary Institute, Wellingborough, member of the school board, school attendance officer and sanitary inspector, 1874, pub. Sonnets on the Months, and Other Poems (Northampton, 1863, BL 11644.ee.61), includes a sonnet ‘To John Clare’ and subscription list headed by Earl Spencer; Descriptive Poems, Miscellaneous Pieces, and Miscellaneous Sonnets (1866), Judith and other Poems, and a Centenary of Sonnets (London and Northampton, 1868), Poems and Sonnets, Descriptive, Miscellaneous, and Special (London: F. Warne, Northampton: Taylor & Son, 1875), Irenia; or the City of the Dead [in verse] (1878, BL 11643.h.26(3), Sketches in Prose and Verse (Northampton: S.S. Campion, ‘Mercury Office’, and Wellingborough: Thos. Collins, ‘News’ Office, 1893). Website (‘Poet’s plaque’): http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=f4317a4d-43f2-4f1d-8d64-4029b7542156. Ref: ODNB; Burnett et al (1984), no. 25; Hold, 25-29; Reilly (1994), 21; Reilly (2000), 17; MBP3, items 134-6.

? Atherstone, Edwin or Edward (1788-1872), thirteenth son of a dyer; made income from lecturing and publication; eventually earned a civil-list pension; music teacher, elocution and philosophy lecturer, painting dealer and collector. Pub. The Last Days of Herculaneum (1821), A Midsummer Day’s Dream (1824); The Sea-Kings in England (1830 [novel]); The Handwriting on the Wall (1858 [romance]); Israel in Egypt: a poem (London, 1861), The Fall of Nineveh: a Poem, 2nd edn, 2 vols (London, 1868). Ref: ODNB; NCBEL III, 363; James 172; Cross 83; Reilly (2000), 17; LION; Sutton, 24 (numerous letters); there are a number of electronic editions online, and further biographical information. [—Cole Crawford]

Atkin, John, self-taught carpenter and joiner of North Muskham, Nottinghamshire, correspondent of John Clare, pub. Jonah Tink, a poem (Newark, 1823). Ref: Johnson, item 35; Jarndyce, item 1264.

? Atkinson, Jane (‘Jenny Wren’, 1836-76; married name Jane Shackleton)‚ farmer’s daughter and printer’s wife of Keighley, Yorkshire, kept a school, pub. Facts and Fancies in Verse and Prose (London and Keighley, 1864 and later editions; posthumous 1879 edition has added materials). In her preface she writes, ‘My husband is a printer and I persuaded him, and in the days of my early bridehood, while persuasion was an easy matter, to gather my stray scribblings together, and reprint them in the form of a book, which would be my very own production, and would be the realisation of the dreams and hopes of my girlhood’. She continued to write after the birth of her twin daughters, and her short stories were popular; she was a successful and locally very well-known writer. Forshaw prints the senitmental ‘Little Annie’. Ref: Forshaw, 160-1; Reilly (2000), 18. [F]

Bachelor or Batchelor, Thomas (1775-1838), self taught farmworker, of Bedford, agriculturalist and poet, author of Village Scenes: The Progress of Agriculture, and Other Poems (London: Vernor and Hood, 1804); A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford (1808). Ref: LC 4, 71-84; ODNB; Barrell and Bull, 370-1; Sambrook, 1360; Barrell, 32 and 75; Jarndyce, item 1272. [LC 4]

Bailey, Mary (fl. 1826), of Kingston Place, Nottingham, lace runner (embroiderer), author of Poems Humorous and Sentimental (1826). ~ Her volume begins with a humble disclaimer for her ‘very deficient’ verses, and a note to the critics is self-deprecating: ‘Should they find fault, which is, alas! too common,/ They’d only set their wit against a woman!’ Verses such as, ‘To a Lady who visited the author when she was in great distress’ expresses gratitude to one who dared to leave ‘her comfortable hearth,/And sought my humble roof’, facing ‘damp and darkness’ and ‘keen affliction’s hand’, to help her feed her children. Bailey worked but did not earn enough to feed her family: ‘The day and evening hard I work’d, / In sickness, and in pain, / In hopes for my dear little babes, / Some fire and bread to gain’. (6). We know from the poem that her work was not done until the ‘clock went eight,’ but that she came home ‘pennyless.’ The nature of her work is revealed in ‘Petition to the British Fair,’ (11): ‘O view the ball-room, where beauty beams round, / And shines with such elegant grace, / And think you in no ways indebted to us,— / the runners of nottingham lace’. This capitalisation is echoed throughout the poem, which could be a mantra or song, particularly in light of her later protest (12) that: ‘How pleasant’s the task, whenever we’re ask’d, / To work hard to beautify you; /Then I’m sure you will own, with candour unmask’d, / Good food and good clothing’s our due; / But the price is so low, that sad to relate; / We cannot these blessings obtain’. Bailey’s poems are rich with local interest and biographical details, such as the lines addressed to her twins and to a lady who upset Bailey by saying she should pray for her child to die, thus ending her poverty. The sickly child does recover, we learn (20), and is possibly ‘Ellinor,’ who ‘slept all the way.’ In a letter thanking her brother and sister for ‘your pudding, your ham, and your wine’ she follows the mention of Ellinor with: ‘If more of my baby you wish me to tell, / I’m glad to inform you, she’s now pretty well.’ A poem about twins comes later, so she may have had four or more children, thus igniting the gossips who say she bred her way into poverty, and who ‘spoils each joy,’ (26). So ends the small volume of mainly two-page poems that speak of a mother’s love and a struggle to live on the wages of the Nottingham Lace-making industry. Ref copy in the Local Studies Collection, Nottingham Central Library. [—Dawn Whatman] [F]

? Bailey, Thomas, (1785-1856), Nottingham tradesman, ‘rhyming shopkeeper’, pub. The carnival of death. A poem in two cantos (London: Longman, 1822), dedication indicates a pacifist poem; What is Life and other Poems (London: Baldwin Cradock, 1820), preface hails an ‘an age of poetical soldiers, sailors, cobblers, labourers, etc.’ Ref: Powell, item 104. Ref: ODNB, Johnson, items 40-1, Crossan, 37; Johnson 46, nos. 264-5; Sutton, 28 (numerous letters); inf. Greg Crossan.

? Baird, Henry (1829-1881), (‘Nathan Hogg’), of Starcross, Devon, solicitor’s clerk (‘Law feeds the lawyer, but it starves his clerk’), later a bookseller and reporter on the Plymouth Mail and Western Times, pub. Letters in the Devonshire Dialect (Exeter, 1847; 2nd edn. 1850); Poetical Letters tu es Brither Jan, and a witch story in the Devonshire dialect (third edn, Exeter, 1858); The Song of Solomon in the Devonshire Dialect. From the authorised English version (London, 1860). Ref: Wright, 16-19.

? Bakewell, Thomas (1761-1835), weaver, mad-doctor and poet, pub. The Moorland Bard, or Poetical Recollections of a weaver, in the moorlands of Staffordshire (Hanley: Allbut, 1807), also wrote a domestic guide in cases of insanity. Ref: ODNB; Poole & Markland, 113-14; Johnson, item 44, NCSTC; Jackson (1985).

Baker, Thomas, thatcher of Wickham Market, pub. A Poem for the Winter Season (Ipswich, 1759). Ref: Cranbrook, 249.

Balfour, Alexander (1767-1829), of Monikie, Forfarshire, weaver, schoolmaster, later a merchant and manufacturer, pub. Contemplation and Other Poems (1820), Characters Omitted in Crabbe’s Parish Register (1825). Ref: ODNB; Reid, Bards, 23-6; Wilson, I, 434-41; Powell, item 105; Sutton, 34 (manuscript of a poem, letters, legal documents). [S]

Balfour, Charles (b. 1819), of Carnoustie, farmer’s boy, factory worker, soldier, stationmaster. Ref: Edwards, 3 (1881), 406-10; Reid, Bards, 26-7. [S]

? Ballantine, James (1808-77), of West Port, Edinburgh, merchant’s son, housepainter’s apprentice, maker of stain-glass windows, pub. poems in Whistlebinkie, and vols. Gaberlunzie’s Wallet (1843); Miller of Deanhaugh (1845); Lilias Lee, and Other Poems (Edinburgh and Buxton, 1871); A Visit to Buxton: A Metrical Description (Buxton, 1873). He also published Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866), an eulogy to his eponymous teacher, the inspiration for his success in reviving the art of Scottish ecclesiastical stained glass. Ref: ODNB; Edwards, 3, 25-32; Wilson, II, 298-303; Douglas, 309, Miles, X, xviii, Reilly (2000), 25; Sutton, 35 (numerous letters). [S]

Ballantyne, James (1860-1887), of Crindledyke, Cambusthen, trap-door boy in a coal mine from age 12, broke his spine in an accident. Ref: Bisset, 277-82; Edwards, 11, 113-18 and 12 (1889), x. [S]

Ballantyne, Margaret, of Paisley, daughter of a weaver (who d. in 1863); she pub. poems in local press. Ref: Brown, II, 382-83; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Baltharpe, John, seaman, pub. The Straights Voyage, or St David’s, Poem, being a description of the most remarkable passages that happened in her first expedition against the Turks of Argeir, Sir John Harman, Commander, Rere-Admiral of His Majesty’s Fleet, beginning May 1669, ending April 1671, by John Baltharpe, belonging to the foresaid ship (London: E.C. for T. Vere, 1671); reprint edited by J. S. Bromley (Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Luttrel Society, 1959). Ref COPAC; Charles Napier Robinson, The British Tar in Fact and Fiction (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1909), 74, 173, 203. [OP]



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