Darlington, 1879

? Collier, Mary, housemaid, pub. Poetic Effusions, by M. Peach (Derby: printed for the authoress, 1823; 1835, 1847, 1851). The first edition appeared in 1823 and the pieces composed in intervening years added to the later editions. The publishing information indicates that this is not the now well-known C18th poet. Bodleian catalogue specifies her as ‘Mary Collier, of Belper’. Ref: Johnson, item 205; http://library.ox.ac.uk; C. R. Johnson, cat. 49 (2006), item 72. [F]

Collier, Samuel, labourer, pub. On Discontent [1743]. Ref: Foxon, C291; copy in Bodleian.

Colling, Mary Maria (née Kempe, 1805-53), of Tavistock, Devon, daughter of a husbandman, self-taught, worked as a domestic servant for most of her life, patronised by Anna Bray, author of Fables and Other Pieces in Verse. With some account of the author, in Letters to Robert Southey by Mrs Bray (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831), subscribers include Wordsworth, Southey, Rogers, L.E.L., and a ‘Mrs Kempe’ who was perhaps the poet’s mother and whose copy was listed by Hart. Ref: LC 5, 11-16; ODNB; Southey, 212-13; Jackson (1993), 83; ABC, 271-2; Burmester, item 378; John Hart, catalogue 69, item 108. Link: wcwp [F] [LC 5]

Collins, George Thomas (b. 1844), of Southampton then Blackburn, brush maker, pub. in Blackburn newspapers. Ref: Hull, 264-71, which includes an unpublished autobiographical statement.

? Collins, John (1742-1808), ‘Brush Collins’, tailor’s son, staymaker, actor, pub. Scripscrapologia, or Collins’s doggerel dish of all sorts (Birmingham, 1804). Ref: ODNB, NCBEL, DNB, LION. Johnson, item 207.

Collins, Samuel (1802-78), of Hollinwood, near Manchester, ‘The Bard of Hale Moss’, weaver, wrote verses in Lancashire dialect, pub. The Wild Floweret (Manchester, 1875); Limerick Races, as Sung by Sam Collins (1860?); and Miscellaneous Poems and Songs (1859) in Lancashire dialect. Ref: ODNB; Reilly (2000), 103.

? Collins, Sarah, broadside balladeer who ‘was transported to Van Dieman’s Land for highway robbery’, according to her ballad, quoted in Fraser’s Magazine in 1839; poss. a pseudonym or a fantasy. Ref: Hepburn, I, 40, 274 note. [F]

Collins, William (1838-90), of Strabane, Co. Tyrone, labourer, soldier, journalist, emigrated to Canada at 13 or 14, lived in Upper Ottawa for some years, crossed the US when the Civil War broke out, and served in one of the Western regiments; In 1866 accompanied General O’Neill to Canada, ‘in connection with the expected Fenian invasion of the Dominion’; worked as a labourer in the quarries of Cleveland, Ohio, writings poems for the Boston Pilot; staff writer on the Irish World and later the New York Tablet; co-founded The Globe, New York, and wrote for ‘many other papers’. Pub Ballads, Songs and Poems (New York, 1876); notable poems include ‘Tyrone Among the Bushes’ and ‘Summer in Ireland’. Ref O’Donoghue, 74. [I]

Collyer, Rev. Robert (b, 1823), Keighley factory-worker and blacksmith, emigrated to the US in 1850 and entered the Methodist ministry later. Ref Andrews 137-40.

Comrie, William, of Paisley, ‘knight of the shuttle’ (i.e. weaver), poems in Brown. Ref: Brown, II, 260-63. [S]

Connell, Philip (fl. 1865), attended a ‘hedge school’ in Ireland, an ‘immigrant Irish plasterer’ in Manchester when he wrote ‘a Winter Night in Manchester’, pub. in Poaching on Parnassus: A Collection of Original Poems (Manchester and London, 1865), a ‘tiny subscription edition’. Ref: Maidment (1987), 99, 150, 152-4, Reilly (2000), 104. [I]

Constable, Michael (‘M.C.’, ‘One of the Ranks’, ‘A British Soldier’; fl. 1841-56), Irish-born tailor, enlisted in 1841 and was appointed a messenger at the Admiralty in London in 1856. Pub. National Lyrics for the Army and Navy (Dublin, dnk; 2nd edn. 1848); Othello in Hell, and The Infant with a Branch of Olives, by ‘One in the Ranks’ (Dublin, 1848); Othello Doomed, etc., by ‘One in the Ranks’ (Dublin, 1849); Songs and Poems (Dublin, 1849). Ref O’Donoghue, 78. [I]

? Constantine, Henry, of Carlton, Yorkshire, ‘The Coverdale Bard’, pub. Rural Poetry and Prose (Beverley, 1867). Ref: Reilly (2000), 105.

Cook, Andrew (b. 1836), of Paisley, compositor. Ref: Edwards, 12, 268-71. [S]

Cook, Eliza (1818-89), daughter and eleventh child of a Southwark brewer or tinman and brazier, self-taught, established in 1849 Eliza Cook’s Journal, pub. Lays of a Wild Harp: A Collection of Metrical Pieces (London, 1835), BL 11644.a.49; New Echoes, and other poems (London, 1864), Poems (1860, 1861); Poetical Works (London, 1870, 1882 and New York, 1882). Her poems include ‘God Speed the Good Ship; Or, The English Emigrant’, ‘Stanzas to my Starving Kind in the North’ both discussed by Hepburn, as well as ‘The Streets’ (recalls London childhood), Poems (1845 as opposed to 1860), ‘A Song, to The People' of England’, and ‘Nature's Gentleman’, ‘The Old Arm-Chair’, ‘The Old Water Mill’, ‘The Indian Hunter’, ‘O come to the ingle side’ (last five set to music in the 1840s and 50s). Ref: ODNB; Rowton, 480-95; Jackson (1993), 84; Reilly (1994), 103; Reilly (2000), 105; Sales (2002), 77, 84-5l Bradshaw, 551-7; Hepburn, II, 409-10; Boos (2008), 279-98. Link: wcwp [F]

Cooke, Noah (b. 1831), of Kidderminster, ‘The Weaver Poet’, of poor illiterate parents, carpet weaver, pub. Wild Warblings (Kidderminster, 1876). Ref: LC 6, 269-86; Burnett et al (1984), no. 170; Ashton & Roberts, ch. 6, 70-75; Reilly (2000), 106-7. [LC 6]

Cooper, George (1829-76), of Arbroath, painter, flax dresser, soldier, humorous poet. Ref: Edwards, 6, 72-7; Reid, Bards, 124. [S]

Cooper, Joseph (1810-90), of Thornsett, New Mills, Derbyshire, ‘The Poet of Temperance’, orphaned at seven and had to work, pub. The Temperance Minstrel: Original Melodies (Manchester, 1877); Helping God to Make the Flowers Grow, with other original poems, hymns, song, dialogues, recitations (Manchester: Brook and Chrystal, 1889). Ref: Reilly (2000), 107; Samuel Laycock, ‘To my Friend, Joseph Cooper, the Derbyshire Bard’, Collected Writings (2nd edition, Oldham, 1908); Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 73.

Cooper, Thomas (‘Adam Hornbook’), (1805-92), shoemaker, of Leicester then Gainsborough, Chartist poet, best known for his prison poem, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison Rhyme (1845), and for the fact that, as Sales (2002) puts it Cooper’s ‘life, and to a lesser extend his works, were raided and reconstructed by [Charles] Kingsley for his social-problem novel Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet (1850).’ Cooper pub. many other vols of poetry and prose including Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1845); The Baron’s Yule Feast. A Christmas rhyme (1846); ‘Sonnets on the Death of Allen Davenport, by a Brother Bard and Shoemaker’, The Northern Star, 5 December 1846; Captain Cobbler; or the Lincolnshire Rebellion. An Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII (1850); Eight Letters to the Young Men of the Working Classes (1851); The Belief in a Personal God and a Future Life (1860); A Calm Inquiry into the Nature of Deity (1864); The Bridge of History over the Gulf of Time (1871); Plain Pulpit Talk (1872); The Life of Thomas Cooper. Written by Himself (1872); God, the Soul, and a Future State (1873); A Paradise of Martyrs (1873); Old Fashioned Stories (1874); The Verity of Christ’s Resurrection from the Dead (1875); The Verity and Value of the Miracles of Christ (1876); Poetical Works (1877); Evolution, the Stone Book, and the Mosaic Record of Creation (1878); The Atonement and other discourses (1880); Thoughts at Fourscore, and Earlier. A Medley (1885). Ref: LC 5, 189-204; ODNB; Winks, 190-228; Miles, X, xiv; Vicinus (1974), 108-12, 159, 189; Ashraf (1975), 173; Ashraf (1978), I, 36-7; Maidment (1983), 79; Burnett et al (1984), no. 177; Kovalev, 87-8; Cross, 128-9, 150-6; James, 172, 175-6; Newitt, 8-22; Maidment (1987), 57-9, 127-32; Scheckner, 133-7, 331-2; Schwab 188-9; Zlotnick, 176-7; Janowitz, esp. 166-73; Vincent, 146-7, 194; Goodridge (1999), item 21; Bradshaw, 501-9; NCBEL III, 516-7; Reilly (2000), 107; Sales (2002), 76-7, 80-83; Sutton, 240 (numerous manuscripts and letters). [LC 5] [C]

Cope, Elijah (1842-1917), of Ipstones, Staffs., gardener‘s son, wood carver; pub. Poems by Elijah Cope of Leek (Leek, 1875), including ‘An Elegy on the Late George Heath’ (George Heath, qv). Ref: Poole & Markland, 248-50.

? Copland, William (b. 1837), of Strichen, Aberdeenshire, saddler’s son, became a parish teacher, pub. Vacation rhymes and verses, chiefly relating to the district of Buchan (Dundee, 1866). Ref: Reilly (2000), 108. [S]

Corbet, Denys (1826-1909), of Vale, Guernsey patois poet, seafaring father died, drafted into militia, left as a pacifist, became parish schoolteacher, farmer, pub. Les Feuilles de la Foret: ou, Recueil de Poesie Original, en Anglais, Francais, et Guernesais (Guernsey, 1871) ; Le jour de l'an de 1874 (successful, led to subsequent Le jour de l'an 1875, 1876, and 1877) and Les chànts du drain rimeux (1884, acknowledges that he is the last, or dernier, of patois poets). Ref: ODNB, Reilly (2000), 108.

Corbett, Hamilton (1850-85), of Glasgow, plumber, singer. Ref: Edwards, 8, 302-5. [S]

? Cordingly, John, received ‘a very limited commercial education’, pub. Poems (Ipswich, London, Bury, Colchester and Norwich, 1827. Ref: Johnson 46, nos. 280-1.

Corrie, Joe, of Fife, coalminer, poet, lifelong socialist and prolific poet, pub. Poems, with an Introduction by Hugh S, Robertson (Port-Dundas, Glasgow: The Forward Publishing Co, n.d. [c. 1926]. Ref Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 344. [OP]

? Corry, John (fl. 1792-7), self-taught Ulster writer, settled in London. Pub. Odes and Elegies, Descriptive and Sentimental, with ‘The Patriot’, A Poem (Newry, 1797), and miscellaneous prose works including histories of Liverpool, Macclesfield and lancashire, biographies and stories. Subscribers to Odes included Lord Edward Fitzgerald, several other writers, and a number of United Irishmen, suggesting a link. Ref O’Donoghue, 80. [I]

Corry, Samuel, of Ballyclare, reedmaker. Ref. Hewitt [I]

Corvan, Edward ‘Ned’ (c. 1830-65), of Newcastle (born in Liverpool), popular entertainer and prolific dialect songwriter, apprenticed as a sailmaker, then a member of Billy Purvis’s company, later a publican, pub. Works (1872). Ref: ODNB, Allan, 387-446; Ian Peddie, ‘Playing at Poverty: The Music Hall and the Staging of the Working Class’, in Aruna Krishnamurphy (ed), The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), 235-54 (241-4).

Costley, Thomas (1837-1900), of Maghaberry, Belfast, County Down, of poor parents, hand-loom handkerchief weaver in Belfast, Glasgow, Salford, later estate agent, poor law guardian, pub. Sketches of Southport, and Other Poems (Manchester, 1889). Ref: O’Donoghue, 82; Reilly (1994), 108. [I] [S]

? Coupe or Coop, Joseph, of Oldham, Lancashire, ‘barber, tooth-drawer, blood-letter, spinner, rhymester and jack-of-all-trades’, and possible co-author with Joseph Lees (qv) of ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt’s Ramble’. Ref: Vicinus (1969), 31-2; Hepburn, II, 387.

Courtenay, Georgina (fl. 1886), resident of ‘The Home,’ a home for fallen women, Paton’s Lane, Dundee; pub. ‘Out of the Depths,’ in The People’s Journal, 27 November, 1886, later issued as a broadside. Ref: inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

? Cousin, Mary (b. 1862), of Stirling, blind poet, lost her sight through measles, but at twenty still planned to become a teacher; poems, published locally, included ‘The Shetland Fishermen,’ ‘Mother,’ ‘Comfort in Adversity,’ and ‘A Friend.’ Ref: Edwards, 4, 364-7; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Cowan, Isa (fl. 1886), was born and lived ‘in the humbler walks of life,’ and received little education; pub. The Banks O’ Cree and Other Poems by Isa, 2^nd edn, enlarged (Newton-Stewart: M’Credie and Anderson, 1886), full text on archive.org; her poems ‘have been produced, sometimes in the intervals of domestic duties, and at other times in the very acts of household work’ (Edwards); many were addressed to friends; several are the acrostic verses popular in the period. Titles include ‘Lines on the Funeral of Miss Ranken,’ celebrating the life of a teacher, ‘On Hearing An Essay Read in the “Vale of Cree” Lodge by Miss M. A—, Now Mrs. G—,’ and ‘Wee Magie.’ Ref: inf. Florence Boos; copy online at archive.org. [F] [S]

Cowan, John (b. 1840), of Paisley, boilermaker, spirit dealer, poems uncollected. Ref: Brown, II, 369-73. [S]

Cowan, Thomas (b. 1834), of Danskine, Garwald, East Lothian, printer, bookseller. Ref: Edwards, 4, 326-34. [S]

Coward, Nathan (1735-1815), grocer’s son of March, Isle of Ely, glover and breeches-maker and poet, later of Dersingham, Norfolk, pub. Quaint Scraps, or Sudden Cogitations (1800). Ref: William Hone, The Table Book (London: William Tegg, 1878), 543-6.

Cowie, James (b. 1827), of Woodside, Aberdeen, mason, pub. Hame-spun Lays of a Deeside Ploughboy (1850). Ref: Edwards, 1, 386. [S]

Cowper, William (1812-86), of Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, taught by his mother, weaver, teacher, pub. At Midnight with the Book and the Stars, and Other Poems (Montrose, Edinburgh and London, 1874). Ref: Edwards 1, 185-87 and 9, xxii; Reid, Bards, 124-5; Reilly (2000), 113. [S]

? Cox, Roger (fl. c. 1699), of Cavan, hatter, later Parish Clerk of Laracor, eccentric; four poems by him quoted in Henry Brooke, Brookiana (London, 1804): ‘The Landlord’ and ‘Interest Like Rust’, The Deserted Fair’, and ‘Verses written in a Marriage Register Book of the Parish of Laracor’ (34-40). Ref Swiftiana, ed. G. H. Wilson (London, 1804), 1. pp. 4-7; O’Donoghue, 84. [I]

Cox, Walter (b. 1770-1837), of Co. Meath, blacksmith’s son, gunsmith, political writer and journalist, wrote for the papers of the United Irishmen, founded the Union Star in 1797 and after spending time in America founded in Dublin the Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum of Neglected Biography, which he ran from 1807-15; in America again he started another journal, The Exile, which failed; he later lived in France and Ireland, dying in poverty. O’Donoghue describes Cox as a ‘remarkable character of the ’98 movement’. Pub The Snuff Box, a bitter satire against America (New York, 1820); The Widow Dempsey's Funeral, a comedy (Dublin, 1822), ‘much of the verse in the Irish Magazine for 1814’ including ‘The Parting Cup; or The Humours of Deoch an Darrish’, and a number of other works. Ref O’Donoghue, 84; DNB. [I]

? Coyle, Henry (fl. 1899), self taught son of a Connaught father and a mother from Limerick, b. in Boston, Mass., contributed verse to the periodicals Harper's Bazaar, Detroit Free Press, Boston Transcript, Catholic Union and Times (Buffalo), and Boston Pilot; became assistant-editor of Orphan’s Bouquet, Boston. Pub. The Promise of Morn, poems (Boston, Mass., 1899). Ref O’Donoghue, 85.

Coyle, Matthew (‘The Smiddy Muse’, b. 1862), of Arva, Killeshandra, County Cavan, lived in Scotland from infancy, educated Port Glasgow, later a blacksmith in Govan. Pub. poems in Glasgow Weekly Mail, Belfast Irish Weekly, Glasgow Observer, Ulster Examiner, and many other papers. Ref: Edwards, 14, 215-19; O’Donoghue, 85. [I] [S]

Craig, David (b. 1837), of Dundee, Baxters factory boy at 13, rose to weaving manager, wrote ‘lively skits at election times’. Ref: Reid, Bards, 126-7. [S]

Craig, John (1796-1854), of Airdrie, weaver poet. Ref. Knox, 110-20; inf. Bridget Keegan. [S]

Craig, John (b. 1851), of Burrelton, Coupar Angus, agricultural labourer, fruit-grower, pub. in Dundee Weekly News and other papers. Ref: Edwards, 2, 121-3. [S]

? Crane, John (fl. c. 1799-1820), watchmaker and general dealer, ‘Bird at Bromsgrove’, pub. An Address to the Bachelors by a bird at Bromsgrvoe (Birmingham: printed for the author by Swinney and hawkins, n.d. [c. 1799]); Rhymes after Meat. By a Bird at Bromsgrove, fourth edition (Birmingham: Printed for the author by Messrs. Swinney and Hawkins, [n.d., ?1800—but Cox gives c. 1804]); Poems. Dedicated without Permission, to John Bull. By a Bird at Bromsgrove. Volume the First, perhaps the Last. The seventh Edition. With the Addition of Forty pages (Stourport: printed for John Crane, seniour, by G. Nicholson, Stourport, And sold by Joshua Crane, Bookseller, Bromsgrove, [n.d., c. 1817-20]), which incorporates his extended poem ‘The London Wakes’. A number of chapbooks were published by this clever and eccentric shopkeeper. Rhymes after Meat has a ‘typographically ingenious folding advertisement frontispieces bearing his punning emblem, a crane with a watch in its beak. The advertisement lists a vast array of goods and trinkets available from the author: jewellery, nutcrackers, cutlery, musical instruments, shuttlecocks and battledores, magnets, pocket books, Tunbridge-ware, cricket bats and other toys’. Ref Croft & Beattie, I, 58 (item 183); Johnson, items 226-8; Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 79.

Craw, William (1771-1816), of Chirnside, mason, sailor, pub. Poetical Epistles (Kilmarnock, 1809). Ref: Crockett, 107-9. [S]

Crawford, James Paul (1825-87), ‘Paul Rookford’, of Catrine, tailor in Glasgow, temperance poet and author of ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’, brother to Mungo and John Kennedy Crawford (qqv). Ref: Edwards, 1, 372-7 and 12, xvi-xvii; Glasgow Poets, 361-63; Murdoch, 188-92. [S]

Crawford, John (1816-73), of Greenock, house-painter, cousin once removed of Burns’s ‘Highland Mary’ (Mary Campbell), pub. Doric Lays: Being Snatches of Song and Ballad (1850; 2nd ser 1860), also wrote non-verse Memorials of the Town of Alloa (1874). Ref: ODNB; Wilson, II, 396-8; Reilly (2000), 114-15; Edwards, 1, 324-5 and 5, 101-4. [S]

Crawford, John (b. 1851), of Carluke, Lanarkshire, opencast miner, cabinet-maker, poems in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 10, 150-7. [S]

Crawford, John Kennedy (b. 1831), of Catrine, Ayrshire, brother to James Paul and Mungo Crawford (qqv), apprentice draper in Glasgow, later in the shawl trade in Paisley. Ref: Edwards, 7, 292-7. [S]

Crawford, Margaret (fl. 1855), gardener’s daughter, factory girl, pub. Rustic Lays, on the Braes of Gala Water by Margaret Crawford, A Gardener’s Daughter, Stow (1855); includes poems on her pastor, her sister, the trials of a factory girl’s life, and on an ill-tempered suitor. Ref: inf. Florence Boos; Boos (2008), 19. [F] [S]

Crawford, Mungo (1828-74), of Catrine, Ayrshire, brother to James Paul and John Kennedy Crawford (qqv), apprentice draper in Glasgow, part-paralyzed at 25, ship’s purser, later draper in Kilmarnock. Ref: Edwards, 7, 292-7. [S]

Crawford, William (b. 1803), of Paisley, weaver and soldier, pub. The Fates of Alceus: or Love’s Knight Errant. An Amatory Poem in five books, with other poetical pieces on various subjects (1828). Ref: Brown, I, 404-05. [S]

? Crealock, W. M., sailor, pub. Scraps by a Sailor; or, Rhymes of the Land and Sea (London, 1888). Ref: Reilly (1994), 115.

Cresswell, Marshall (d. 1889), of Dudley colliery, pub. song collection with autobiographical sketch in 1876. Ref: Allan, 512.

Crighton, James (d. 1892), ‘The Whistler’, of Perth, later Arbroath, ploughboy, stationmaster, finally estate manager in England. Ref: Reid, Bards, 128-30. [S]

Crocker, Charles (1797-1861), of Chichester, shoemaker, left school at 12. Southey, a good friend, ‘asserted that the sonnet “To the British Oak” was one of the finest in the English language’. Pub. The Vale of Obscurity, the Lavant and other poems (1830; 2nd edn Chichester and London, 1834; 3rd edn, 1841); Kingley Vale and Other Poems (Chichester, 1837); A Visit to Chichester Cathedral (1848), The Poetical Works of Charles Crocker (1860). In 2014 a ‘blue plaque’ was unveiled in South Street, Chichester, commemorating this ‘Poet, Cathedral Sexton, and most respected Cicestrian’ (Chichester Observer, 11 March 2014). His papers are in the West Sussex Record office, Add Mss 21,431 (National Archives web page). Ref: ODNB; Winks, 321-2; Johnson, items 233-4; Reilly (2000), 116; Johnson 46, no. 282; Sutton, 256 (letters).

Cronshaw, Joseph, of Ancoats, Manchester, self-made working man, began as a barrow-boy and became a large merchant, pub. Dingle Cottage: Poems and Sketches (Manchester, 1908). Ref: Maidment (1987), 368-9. [OP]

Cross, William (1804-86), of Paisley, son of a handloom weaver, drawboy, pattern maker, manufacturer, journalist, pub. Songs and miscellaneous poems, written at rare intervals of leisure in the course of a busy life (Glasgow, 1882), poems in Whistle-Binkie, and a famous story, ‘The Disruption’. Ref: Glasgow Poets, 263-66; Brown, I, 379-83; Edwards, 6, 19-28 and 9, xxi-xxii; Reilly (1994), 118. [S]

Crossarthurlie, Jessie, pub. poem, ‘The Factory Girl’s Lament,’ in The Poet’s Box, sold in Glasgow and Dundee. Ref: inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Crowe, Robert (b. 1832), tailor, temperance advocate, born in Ireland, raised in poverty, educated at National School, later lived in London and Birmingham, emigrated to America, pub. autobiography, Reminiscences of an octogenarian (New York, ?1901), 32 pp, copy in Library of Congress; ‘some poetry and ballads is included’. Ref Burnett et al (1984), no. 189. [I]

Cruickshank, William (d. 1868), of Bauds of Montbletton, Gamrie, Banffshire, gardener’s son, molecatcher (‘The Rhyming Molecatcher’), pub. Charlie Neil, and Other Poems, Chiefly in the Buchan Dialect (Peterhead, 1869). Ref: Edwards, 2, 192-5; Reilly (2000), 117. [S]

? Cruse, Jesse, London postman, primitive-methodist lay-preacher, abstainer, numerous 30-page pubs. in 1890s including Labour of Love: Containing Twelve Original Poems on Moral & Religious Subjects (London, 1898), A Poor Man’s Logic: Containing Twelve Original Poems on Moral & Sacred Themes (London, 1896). Ref: Reilly (1994), 119-20.

Cryer, Silas (b. 1840), of Bingley, printer, compositor, pub. Leisure Musings (1876), 72 pp., ‘a good example of the motto poeta nascitur non fit’ (Forshaw). Ref Forshaw, 67-8.

Cryer, William, pub. Lays After Labour (Bolton, Alfred Blackshaw, 1913), pp. 440, with guarded photo. Ref: full text on archive.org. [OP]

? Cumming, Thomas (fl. 1810-19), glazier and poet, pub. Dreadful Catastrophe at Paisley, November 10th, 1810 (Paisley: printed for and sold by Thomas Cumming 1810); Peep into the cabinet, A poem (Paisley: printed for the author, 1818); Strictures on the Election of John Maxwell, Esq., of Pollok, 4th July, 1818, as representative in Parliament for the Shire of Renfrew: a Poem printed by Stephen Young, Paisley (Paisley, 1818); Sympathy displayed and Patriotism Delineated: a Poem (Paisley: printed for the author, undated [?1819]). Ref: Brown, I, 197; Scottish Book Trade Index, online at: http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index. [S]

Cunningham, Allan, ‘Hidllan’ (1784-1842), ‘The Nithsdale Mason’, friend to Hogg and Clare, esteemed by Scott, misc. writer, brother of Thomas Mounsey Cunningham (qv); pub. Songs, Chiefly in the Rural Language of Scotland (1813); The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (four volumes, 1825); Lives of the most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (six volumes, 1829-1833); and The Works and Life of Burns (eight volumes, 1834); Sir Marmaduke Maxwell ... and Twenty Scottish Songs (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1822); The Maid of Elvar, A Poem. In Twelve Parts (London: Edward Moxon, 1832). Ref: ODNB; Radcliffe; Miller, 192-203, 217; Wilson, II, 61-72, Douglas. 302-3, Cafarelli, 84, Johnson, items 109, 373, 751, Jarndyce, items 1358-9, Goodridge (1999), item 26, Powell, items 171-4; Miles, X, xvii; Sutton, 269 (numerous manuscripts and letters). [S]