[255] Rev. Charles Pelham Mulvaney, b. in Dublin, Ireland, May 20, 1835; d. in Toronto, May 31, 1885. A classical scholar of distinction. Published in 1880, conjointly with A. H. Chandler, Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets.
[256] George Murray, b. in London, England. Educated at King's College, London, and at Oxford University. Before taking his degree in 1860 he published The Oxford Ars Poetica; or, How to Write a Newdigate. Came to Canada 1859, and was connected with the Montreal High School until his retirement on a pension in 1892. He was one of the editors of the literary remains of Hon. D'Arcy M'Gee. Author of Verses and Versions, 1891. Resides in Montreal.
[260] H. M. Nickerson, b. in Nova Scotia. Author of Carols of the Coast, 1892. Mr Nickerson is known as the "Fisherman Poet." Resides at Clark's Harbor, Nova Scotia.
[261] Cornelius O'Brien, His Grace the Archbishop of Halifax, b. near New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, May 4, 1843. Besides many works in prose he published in 1890, Aminta, a Modern Life Drama. Was President of the Royal Soc. of Can., 1896-7. Resides at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[261] Thomas O'Hagan, Ph.D., b. near Toronto, Ontario, 1855. Educated at St Michael's College and at Ottawa University, taking subsequent studies at Syracuse and Cornell Universities. Author of A Gate of Flowers, 1887; In Dreamland and Other Poems, 1893; Songs of the Settlement, 1899. Resides in Toronto.
[264] Horatio Gilbert Parker, b. at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, 1859. Educated at Trinity University, Toronto. A novelist of wide repute, and author of A Lover's Diary, poems (2nd ed. 1894). Has lived in Australia, but now resides in London, England, making frequent visits to Canada.
[265] Amy Parkinson was born in Liverpool, England, and came to Toronto, Ontario, with her parents when a child. Her formal education ceased when she was twelve years of age, her health failing her. For eight or nine years past, she has not risen from her bed. Her poems are dictated to her father, and it is noteworthy that her mind is specially vigorous in composition as she is passing into or recovering from the severe attacks which seize her, any one of which might prove fatal. Author of booklets of verse, Love Through All, and In His Keeping. Resides in Toronto.
[268] Frank L. Pollock, b. February 1876. Has resided for the most part in St Mary's, Ontario, and in Toronto. His literary productions have appeared chiefly in the Youth's Companion, The Criterion, Ainslee's Magazine and Town Topics. His present residence is in New York City.
[270] Andrew Ramsay, b. in 1849, near the village of West Flamboro, Ontario. "After two years of torture under the mad manipulation of a savage schoolmaster," he "escaped to the wilderness for what scanty education" he obtained. Author of The Canadian Lyre, 1859; Win-on-ah; The Forest Light, and Other Poems, 1869; One Quiet Day, prose and poetry, 1873; Muriel, The Foundling, and Other Poems, 1886. Is a house decorator, and has won distinction in landscape work in that art. Resides at Westover, Ontario.