Poet, born in London of Irish parentage. His works included Myrtle Leaves; A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Amatory (1824). He briefly corresponded with Southey in 1827 after he found one of the latter’s manuscript letters to a friend, now deceased, in a book he had purchased. He offered to return it, but Southey told him to keep the letter, on the condition that it was not published during his lifetime.