Darlington, 1879

Hamlyn, George (‘The Dartmoor Bloomfield’, 1819-?1896), of Tamerton, Devon, wheelwright, coachmaker, travelled country and lived in Australia, pub. Rustic Poems (Devonport, Plymouth and London, 1869). Ref: Reilly (2000), 204.

Hammon, Jupiter (1711-1806?), slave, the first African-American writer to be published; pub. An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries: Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr. Lloyd of Queen's Village, on Long Island, the 25th of December, 1760 (broadside, 1761); An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley (broadside, 1778); A Winter Piece [prose] (1782); An Evening’s Improvement [prose and poetry] (1783); An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York [important prose work] (1787) Ref: PAL (http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/hammon.html); Wikipedia and other online sources; Basker, 137-45.

Hampson, Walter (‘Casey’, 1864-1932), of Normanton, Yorkshire, self-taught railway engine driver, pub. Songs of the Line. And other Poems (London: King’s Cross Publishing Co, 1905); Tykes Abroad (Wakefield, 1911); autobiography, ‘Reminiscences of “Casey”’, serialised over 31 weeks in Forward magazine, 1931. Hampson edited a local journal devoted to the Yorkshire dialect, and an unpublished history of Normanton. Ref: Moorman, xxxvii, 92-4; Burnett et al (1984), no. 297; inf. John Lucas; Wikipedia. [OP]

Hanby, George (1817-1904, ‘Peter Pledge’), of Barnsley, colliery surfaceman and verse-writer for charitable causes and income; ardent temperance writer, poems include ‘Verse on the Temperance and Sunday School Tea Meeting held on the 11^th of November, 1864, in Miss Pilkington’s Reading Room, Newmillerdam, near Wakefield, convened for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Mr. William Gates of Rotherham, late of Barnsley, for his unwearied zeal in the Church Sunday School at Walton’. Ref: Vicinus (1969), 26; Vicinus, 25; Burnett et al (1984), no. 135.

Hands, Elizabeth Herbert (1746-1815), servant, of Allesley near Coventry, married to a blacksmith, pub. (as ‘Daphne’) in The Coventry Mercury, and won 1,200 subscribers for her The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With Appendix containing pastorals and other poetical pieces (Coventry, 1789, BL 1466.h.18); Caroline Franklin, Introduction to The Death of Amnon. A Poem by Elizabeth Hands [and] The Rural Lyre, A Volume of Poems by Ann Yearsley (London: Routledge, 1996). Ref: LC 3, 153-70; Radcliffe; Lonsdale (1989), 422-9; Rizzo, 243; Milne (1999), 60-99; Johnson, item 406; Jackson (1993), 144; Christmas, 228-34; Johnson 46, no. 192; Kord, 262-3; Backscheider, 406-7; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 876; Cynthia Dereli, ‘In Search of a Poet: the life and work of Elizabeth Hands’, Women’s Writing, 8, no. 1 (2001), 169-82. [F] [LC 3]

Hannah, John, (1802-54), of Creetown, moved down from Scotland to Diss in 1823, itinerant packman, pub. Posthumous Rhymes (Beccles, 1854). Ref: Cranbrook, 118, 201; Copsey (2002), 168-9; Harper, 243. [S]

Hannan, Roberts (1816-59), of Cardross, stonemason, poems in Macleod. Ref: Macleod, 217-19 [S]

Hardacre, Ben, (c. 1820-80), factory operative of Bradford, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London and Bradford, 1874). Ref: Holroyd, 194-5; Vicinus (1974), 146-7, 180n.

Hardaker or Hardacre, Joseph, of Haworth, self-styled ‘illiterate Moorland muse’. He pub. Poems, Lyric and Moral, on Various Subjects (Bradford: Printed for the author, 1822); The Aeropteron: or Steam Carriage (Keighley, Aked, for the author, 1830); The Bridal of Tomar; and other poems (Keighley and London: Charles Crabtree, and Simpkin and Marshall, 1831). Forshaw includes ‘The Author’s Cot in Ruins’; Holroyd includes an extract from ‘A Tour of Bolton Abbey and its adjoining scenery’, and notes that he ‘tried almost every sect of religionists’ before settling for Catholicism, in which he died. Ref: Holroyd, 52-3; Forshaw, 78-81; Johnson 46, nos. 296-7.

Hardie, Alexander (1825-88), of Carlton, Glasgow, moved to Paisley aged one, father a shoemaker who entered army and then retired with good pension, got a good education but could not get a situation and so was apprenticed to shoemaker; late in life went blind; had started writing poetry in 1843, contributed to newspapers, pub. A Selection of Songs and Sentiments (1849); Freedom: A Poem (1854, a 16-page poem). Ref: Brown, II, 52-5. [S]

Hardie, John, (b. c. 1782), of Glasserton, Wigtownshire in SW Scotland, and Whitehaven, Cumberland, cabinet maker at Whitehaven, vocal supporter of Tory Lord Lonsdale, patronised by Stair Hathorn Stewart of Glasserton. Pub. Poems on Various Subjects (Whitehaven, 1839) and occasional verses in Lonsdale’s newspaper, The Cumberland Pacquet. Ref. Burke (2005), ‘Lord Lonsdale and His Protégés: William Wordsworth and John Hardie’, Criticism, 47, no. 4 (Fall 2005), 515-29.

Hardie, John (b. 1849), of Gamrie, Banffshire, cow herder, gardener, pub. in newspapers, Pub. Sprays from the Garden (Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1898). Ref: Edwards, 15, 351-3. [S]

? Hardy, William, groom, pub. Poems on Several Subjects by ... a Poor Groom at Oxford (no imprint, 1737). Ref: Dobell, 2946.

Hargrave, Hugh Dunbar (1854-83), of Parkhead, Glasgow, son of a yarn dyer, left school at ten to work in dye works, later a bricklayer, pub. Poems, songs and essays (Glasgow, 1886). Ref: Reilly (1994), 211; Edwards, 2, 139-40 and 9, xx. [S]

Harman, Matthew (b. 1822), of Scarborough, went to sea with Scarborough fishing fleet in youth, pub. Poetic buds (2nd edn 1865, rev ed. 1874), Wayside Blossoms (1867, rev. edn. 1883), A wreath of rhyme (Scarborough: James Ainsworth, 1871), Bodleian. Ref: Reilly (2000), 206-7.

? Harney, (George) Julian, of Kent, Chartist and journalist, founder and editor of The Red Republican and The Democratic Review (1849-50). Ref: ODNB; Kovalev, 125-6; Scheckner, 156, 333-4; Schwab, 193-4. [C]

Harper, Francis (b. 1865), of Feughs Glen, Aberdeen, farm worker, pub. poems in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 6, 344-7. [S]

Harris, John (1820-84), of Camborne, Cornwall, copper miner, worked in Dolcoath mine, wrote for magazines, including essays on the land question; pub. Lays from the Mine, the Moor, and the Mountain (1853); The Mountain Prophet, The Mine, and Other Poems (London: Alexander Heylin, 1860); A Story of Carn Brea, Essays, and Other Poems (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1863); Monro (London and Falmouth: Hamilton, Adams and Co., and The Author, 1879); Linto and Loner [and other poems] (London and Falmouth, 1881); My Autobiography (London, Falmouth and Exeter, 1882)—includes a photograph. Ref: ODNB/DNB; John Gill, John Harris, the Cornish Poet: a lecture on his life and works (Falmouth and Penryn, 1891); Burnett et al (1984), no. 304; Vincent, 14, 151, 182, 194; Wright, 231-3; Reilly (1994), 211-12; Reilly (2000), 207-8; Sutton, 436 (letters); Bridget Keegan and John Goodridge, ‘Modes and Methods in Three Nineteenth-Century Mineworker Poets’, Philological Quarterly, 92: 2 (2013), 225-50; The John Harris Society Newsletter; www.johnharrissociety.org.uk/.

? Harrison, George (1876-1950), hairdresser and popular Northamptonshire poet, pub. A Wanderer in Northamptonshire (1948). Ref: Hold, 84-85. [OP]

Harrison, John (1814-89), of Forglen, Aberdeenshire, herd-boy from age 8, seaman, pub. The Laird of Restalrig’s Daughter (1857), Three ballads: the clipper screw; Maximilian; Trafalgar (London, 1869). Ref: Edwards, 7, 195-201 and 12, xv-xvi; Reilly (2000), 208. [S]

Harrison, Susannah (1752-84), of Ipswich, of poor parents, domestic servant from sixteen, then taught herself to read and write, permanent invalid from 1772, religious poet, pub. Songs in the Night; By a Young Woman under Deep Afflictions, ed. John Conder (London, 1780), at least fifteen UK and six US editions by the 1820s, also pub. a broadside, A Call to Britain. Ref: LC 2, 375-86; Nancy Cho, ‘“The Ministry of Song”: Unmarried British Women’s Hymn-Writing, 1730-1936’, PhD dissertation, University of Durham, 2007; Fullard, 414-18, 557; Landry; DNB; Jackson (1993), 145-7; Cranbrook, 202-3; Backscheider, 407; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 876. [F] [LC 2]

Hart, Alexander Morrison (b. 1853), of Maryhill, Glasgow, papermill worker, stationery manager. Ref: Edwards, 1, 231-2. [S]

? Hart, Mary Kerr, Mrs. (fl. 1860), impoverished poet, pub. Heath Blossoms: Or, Poems written in obscurity and seclusion, with a memoir of the author (Ballingdon: 1830?). ‘In about 1830 Mary Kerr Hart prefaced her book Heath Blossoms: or Poems written in Obscurity and Seclusion with the story of her life and the “dark and melancholy fate” which had befallen her, her husband having been declared bankrupt and insane, leaving her at the mercy of his many creditors. What ultimately became of her is not clear.’ Ref: D.R. Fisher (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, (Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 2009), via: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/kerr-john-1794-1841 [F] [—Dawn Whatman]

? Hart, Samuel, miller’s son, quack-doctor and parish verse-maker of Kettleburgh, Suffolk, pub. Poem on the coronation and marriage of...Queen Victoria (nd, c. 1840). Ref: Cranbrook, 204.

Hartley, Elizabeth (b. 1844), of Dumbarton, gardener’s daughter, pub. The Prairie Flower, and Other Poems (Dumbarton, 1870). Ref: Macleod, 181-6; Reilly (2000), 209. [F] [S]

Hartley, John (1838-1915), of Halifax, pattern designer of worsted goods, worked in the Halifax dialect, and made a ‘really substantial income’ from dialect writing and later worked in America as a small businessman. Pub. Yorkshire Lyrics: Poems Written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire, To which are added a selection of Fugitive Pieces not in the Dialect (London: W. Nicholson, 1898). Hartley also has has four Yorkshire dialect poems in the England anthology: ‘Wayvin’ Music’, ‘To a Daisy’, ‘Bite Bigger’, ‘Give ’Em It ’Ot’. Bite Bigger, which Hartley originally sold as a penny broadsheet throughout the West Riding, writes of hurrying through town to work, and only having tuppence to give to a poor beggar; Hartley wrote extensively in poetry and prose, dealing with the poverty of the district. He edited the popular Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 [Moorman, and K.E. Smith in the Intro to England give 1867], and wrote a number of books about his character ‘Sammywell Grimes’, who ‘has a series of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps’. Ref Ref Holroyd, 74; Andrews 68-74; Moorman, xxxv-xxxvi, 62-7, 135-6 (gives birthdate as 1839); Smith, West; England 17, 44, 54, 63; antiquarian bookseller descriptions via Abebooks.

? Harvey, William (b. 1811-74), of Edinburgh, bookseller, wrote ‘The Battle of Stirling Bridge’, pub. Poems of the Fancy and Affections (1843). Ref: Edwards, 15, 403-6. [S]

Hatton, Ann Julia (1764-1838), née Kemble, other married name Curtis, born in Worcester into a theatre family, congenitally lame, later scarred by small pox, received little education, claimed to have been neglected and abandoned by her (middle class) family, married C. Curtis (d. 1817) in a union that proved bigamous and was abandoned by Curtis (though she published her first volume of poems as ‘Ann Curtis’), became an apprentice mantua maker; a newspaper advertisement in 1783 accused her family of neglect and solicited donations for her relief; lectured at James Graham’s ‘Temple of Health’; attempted suicide by poison in Westminster Abbey; was working at a bagnio in 1789, when a press report indicates she was accidentally shot in the eye; married William Hatton in 1792 and travelled to America (where she addressed the New York Democratic Society and wrote the libretto for an opera, ‘Tammany, or, the Indian Chief’ 1794), but returned to Britain and settled in Swansea in 1799, where they purchased and ran a bath house; Hatton was involved in the Swansea theatre scene and she was well-received in several roles, despite her physical disabilities; when William died (1806), Hatton ran a dancing school in Kidwelly; she returned and settled in Swansea in 1809, and claimed to receive financial assistance from her family on condition that she not come within 100 miles of them; died in relative isolation; though she was brought up protestant, ‘it is said that she died a Catholic like her father’ (ODNB). Pub: numerous novels, and the poetical volumes Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1783); Poetic Trifles (1811). In 1832 she sought a subscription for a third volume, to be titled Fifty-Two Poetic Cumaean Leaves. Predicting the Destiny of Ladies and Gentlemen. Ref: OCLW; ODNB; Gramich and Brennan. [F] [W] [—Katie Osborn]

Hatton, Edmund (b. 1844), of Bradford, has two Yorkshire dialect poems in the England anthology: ‘Fettlin’ Neet’ and ‘Poor Barns’, and two in Holroyd including ‘Ahr Maggie’; Hatton writes autobiographically of poverty and hardship and from the evidence of his poetry seems to be a working man. Ref Holroyd, 12, 75-6; England 31, 40.

Hawkins, Walter Thomas (b. 1855), of Tilbury, moved to Anna, Dumfriesshire in childhood, later a manufacturer in Huddersfield, pub. Bolter’s Barn (1888), prose works and magazine poems. Ref: Miller, 313-14. [S]

Hawkins, Susannah (1787-1868), of Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, uneducated blacksmith’s daughter, cattle herder and dairymaid: the proprietor of the Dumfries Courier pub. her volumes for free and she sold them door to door for 50 years, travelling as far as Manchester; pub. The Rural Enthusiast, and other Poems (London, 1808); The Poetical Works (Dumfries, 1829); The Poems and Songs of Susanna Hawkins. Vol. 8. (Dumfries: W. R. M’Diarmid, 1866; vols. 1-10 appeared 1829-61); poems include ‘To the Honourable Lady Jane Johnston Doublas,’ ‘A Hymn,’ ‘To Mrs. M.,’ ‘On the Death of James Steward, Esq.’, ‘To F. C. Professor of Chemistry,’ On a Ship That was Overturned at Tynemouth in a Storm,’ ‘Satan and Falsehood,’ and, perhaps her most ambitious, ‘Art and Nature’. Ref: DNB; Miller, 238-41; Jackson (1993), 150; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]

Hawthorne, John, linen weaver, soldier, pub. Poems, By John Hawthorn, Light Dragoon in the Inniskilling Regiment (Salisbury, 1779; BL 11630.b.5(4), BL 11632.d.19). Ref: Lonsdale (1984), 653-6, ESTC.

Hay, Alexander (b. 1826), of Newcastle upon Tyne, apprentice cabinet-maker, ship’s carpenter, tutor, journalist, songwriter. Ref: Allan, 560-4.

Haynes, Lemuel (1753-1833), servant in Massachusetts, had an African father and white mother, fought in the Revolutionary war and became a preacher; poems circulated in MS but not published until 1980s. Ref: Basker, 229.

? Haynes, William, cadet bandsman on the HMS Phoebe ‘at a time when all officers and cadets were required to keep a log during their voyages’. Pub. My Log. A Journal of the proceedings of the Flying Squadron. Dedicated to captain Bythesea (Devonport, 1871), a verse-log of a voyage to Australia via South America, returning via Japan. Ref John Hart, catalogue 69, item 145.

? Head, Catherine (fl. 1837), sailor’s wife, poet, translator and novelist, pub. Sketches in Prose and Poetry, by K.H, (London: 1837); The Seven First Cantos of the Messiah; a poem, by Friedrich Gottlied Klopstock: translated [from the German] into English verse (1826); Rybrent de Cruce, a novel, the final vol., III, pub. 1829. Sketches was pub. by subscription, and the author expresses gratitude towards a Mrs Muspratt. Head laments that the death of a sailor does not bring an annuity to his widow as the death of a soldier would. However, it is unclear whether Head is struggling herself, writing to support sailors’ widows, or both. She appears fairly learned, having travelled with her husband and knowing several languages; the book alternates verse and prose and includes accounts of experiences in Ireland, from riots to the kindness of peasants, and comment on what life is like for sailors and their wives. Ref: works as cited; Samuel Halkett, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature (New York: 1971), V, 236. [F] [—Dawn Whatman]

Heany, James, bookbinder, author of Oxford, the Seat of the Muses (2nd edn, 1738, Dobell 2956). Ref: Dobell.

Heath, George (1844-69), of Gratton, Staffordshire, known as ‘The Moorland Poet’ and ‘The Invalid Poet’, educated at village school, worked on his father’s farm, then as an apprentice builder, pub. two slim vols (Preludes, 1865; 2nd edn 1866 as Simple Poems); Heart Strains (1866), both printed locally—the latter by Mr. Hallowes of Leek); died of consumption at 25; The poems of George Heath, selected and arranged by J. Badnall, with a memoir by F. Redfern, memorial edition (1870, 2nd edn 1880). Ref: Maidment (1987), 19; Poole & Markland, 254-60; inf. Patrick Regan and the George Heath web page: http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/georgeheath/; http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/heath.htm; https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/collections/discoverychannel/featuredcollections/georgeheath/fcgeorgeheathmain.aspx

Heath, Noah (b. c. 1780), of Sneyd Green, Stoke, operative potter, later modeller and moulder, paralysed by an operation following a dog-bite, pub. Miscellaneous Poems, I (Hanley: James Amphlett, 1823) and II (Burslem: S. Brougham, 1829). Ref: Poole & Markland, 131-2; inf. Patrick Regan.

Heaton, William (1801-70), handloom weaver of Halifax he was a carpet weaver for Messrs Crossley’s of Halifax for eight years (his second volume is dedicated to John Crossley), and later keeper of the People’s Par; pub. The Flowers of Calder Dale (1847), and The Old Soldier, The Wandering Lover and Other Poems, together with a sketch of the Author’s Life (London, 1857); BL 11650.d.15. Ref: LC 5, 205-20; Athenaeum, 21 August 1858, (review); Holroyd, 50-1, 70-1; Andrews, 79-81; E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 324; Burnett et al (1984), no. 317; Vicinus (1974) 141, 149-51, 169, 177; Maidment (1987), 344-7; Vincent, 124-5, 183. [LC 5]

? Heavisides, Edward Marsh (d. 1849), a young printer and poet who died of cholera, pub. The Poetical and Prose Remains, ed. by Henry Heavisides (London: Longmans, 1850), subscriber’s list mainly from NE England, printed in Stockton; first section five short chapters on the writings of Charles Dickens. Ref: inf. Bob Heyes.

? Hebenton, Edward (1842-87), of East Memus, Tannardyce, Forfarshire, youngest of a large family, followed the others into ‘an early apprenticeship to toil’ but physical weakness drove him to clerical work and a solicior’s apprenticeship, later a Clerk at Register House, Edinburgh. Ref: Edwards, 7, 53-6. [S]

? Hedley, George Roberts (b. 1833), of Ovington, Northumberland, farmer in the Newcastle upon Tyne area, pub. Ballads, and other poems (London, 1885). Ref: Reilly (1994), 219.

Heggie, John (b. 1859), of Scotlandwells, Kinross, son of a small farmer who died when he was 15, clerk in Glasgow. Ref: Edwards, 7, 318-21. [S]

Hemingway, John, shoemakr poet of Halifax, pub. a magazine poem as from a fellow worker to James Woodhouse (qv), dated 1764: ‘Verses addressed to James Woodhouse, By a Brother Craft’, pub. in Lloyd’s Evening Post, London, England, May 23rd-25th 1764, no, 1072. Ref journal as cited; inf Steve Van-Hagen.

Henderson, Daniel M’Intyre (b. 1851), of Glasgow, wholesale draper, emigrated to Baltimore, book-keeper, pub. poems in local and US newspapers. Ref: Ross, 90-7; Edwards, 6, 115-20 and 12 (1889), 140-45 [this looks like an accidental duplication by Edwards: he does the entry twice, quite differently, with almost completely different poems]. [S]

? Henderson, Duncan (d. 1832), grocer and correspondent of Cobbett. Ref: Brown, I, 121-26. [S]

? Henderson, Fred (1867-1957), of Norwich, clothier’s son, socialist activist, poet and songwriter, journalist; pub. several books of verse, including By the Sea and other Poems (second edition, London: T. F. Unwin, 1892); poems including ‘Song of Springtide’ also appeared in anthologies; described as ‘one of the few workers who provided songs for the [socialist] movement’. Ref: Chris Waters, British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture 1884-1914; www.archive.org; not in ODNB but has a Wikipedia entry.

Henderson, William (b. 1831), of Biggar, Lanarkshire, compositor for Constable in Edinburgh, later worked in London. Ref: Edwards, 7, 278-84. [S]

Henrietta, Frank (1837-83), of Glasgow, son of a handloom weaver who d. when he was five, barber, soldier, pub. Poems and Lyrics (Airdrie, 1879), and tales of soldier life in India. Ref: Edwards, 5, 165-9 and 9, xxiii; Knox, 193-7; Reilly (2000), 217. [S]

Herald, Alexander (c. 1802-1865), postmaster of Guthrie, ‘suffered greatly from various maladies’, pub. Amusements of Solitude (1845). Ref: Reid, Bards, 221-2. [S]

Herbert, Henry (1816?-76?), of Fairford, Gloucester, shoemaker poet, pub. Autobiography of Henry Herbert, a Gloucestershire Shoemaker and Native of Fairford [in verse] (Gloucester, 1866; second edn, Gloucester: printed for the author, 1876). Ref: Burnett et al (1984), no. 324; Reilly (2000), 219.

Herbison, David (‘The Bard of Dunclug’, 1800-80), of Ballymena, County Antrim, son of an innkeeper, blinded at three, sight regained later, emigrated to Canada, survived a shipwreck, returned to Ballymena as a weaver; pub. in Ulster periodicals, and as follows: Midnight Musings (1848); The snow-wreath (Belfast and Ballymena, 1869); Children of the year, with other poems and songs (Belfast and Ballymena, 1879); The Fate of M'Quillan and O'Neill's Daughter (1841); The Woodland Wanderings (1858). Ref: Ulster DNB; Hewitt; Reilly (2000), 219. [I]

Herd, Richard, shepherd of Howgill, pub. Scraps of Poetry. An Essay on Free Trade (Kirkby Lonsdale: printed by Arthur Foster, 1837); contains ‘Sir Walter Scott’ and ‘On the death of Lord Byron’, the majority of the poems composed ‘while wandering upon the lofty fells of Howgill, in his occupation as a shepherd, without pen or paper, when the ear alone was consulted...not only composed, but committed to memory, amended, and corrected in the author’s mind...as in the case of the poet Bloomfield [qv].’ Ref: Johnson, item 428.

Hersee, William, ploughboy, pub. Poems Rural and Domestic (Chichester: printed by W. Mason for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, and Johnson and Co, London, 1810), contains ‘Sonnet to Mr Bloomfield’ (qv). Ref: Johnson, item 429.

Hetrick, Robert (1769-1849), brought up a weaver, later became blacksmith, pub. Poems and Songs (Ayr, 1826), includes a ‘Prologue to the Gentle Shepherd’. Ref: Edwards, 4, 368-71; Johnson, item 431. [S]

Heughan, Joseph (b. 1836), of Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, blacksmith who ‘early began to write verses, most of which are remarkable for the uncouth, old-fashioned Galloway words they contain, and for their richness in Biblical and classical references’. Ref: Harper, 262. [S]

Hewit, John, of Auchecrow, labourer and farm-labourer, wrote songs and ballads on the ‘Witches of Edincraw’, unpublished. Ref: Crockett, 293. [S]

Hewitt, Alexander (1778-1850) of Lintlaw, Bunkle, Berwickshire, sailor, ploughman, pub. Poems (Berwick, 1807). Ref: Crockett, 114-16. [S]

Hewitt, James (b. 1847), born in Essex, settled in Perth as a garment dyer, pub. in the Perth Citizen, Scottish Guardian. Ref: Edwards, 1, 242-4, [S]