Robert Williams Buchanan
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born
August 18, 1841
in Caverswall, Staffordshire, England, The United Kingdom
died
June 10, 1901
gender
male
About this author
Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813-1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, England. Buchanan senior, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior was educated, at the high school and the university, one of his fellow-students being the poet David Gray. His essay on Gray, originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, tells the story of their close friendship, and of their journey to London in 1860 in search of fame.