Very little biographical detail exists for this 19th century American poet and soldier. Neither date of birth nor death can be confirmed and what follows is extracted from material supplied by a great grandson, Mr Ron Holcombe. Alfred Biddleton McCreary was born, probably sometime during the 1840s, in the small town of Bradner which lies in the north western part of Ohio. At the ...
The exotically named Augustus Montague Toplady was an 18th century Anglican minister, poet and hymn writer who penned the famous hymn Rock of Ages which, of course, is still sung today all over the world. As a dedicated Calvinist he was bitterly opposed to the views of John Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist church. Toplady was born on the 4th November ...
Alexander Smith was one of a group of Scottish poets who wrote during the mid-1850s under the name the “Spasmodics”. This was a school of poetry that was very popular for around two decades but then suddenly fell out of fashion even though it included the odd poem from such luminaries as Alfred Lord Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is ...
Alexander Macgregor Rose was a 19th century Scottish-born poet, journalist, Free Church minister and teacher who lived the last twenty years or so of his life in first New York City and then in two Canadian cities. He moved first to Toronto and then spent the last two years of his life in Montreal. He was born on the 17th August 1846 in ...
Albert Ferland was a French-Canadian poet and illustrator. Born in the late 19th century he was known to be a sensitive man who always sought out the company of fellow writers and artist. He did not have the advantage of a good education, coming from a relatively modest background, but through reading copiously and much private study he taught himself the skills ...
