About James Young Geddes
Lived 1850 – 1913 (aged 62–63). James Young Geddes was a poet and writer.
James Young Geddes (18501913) was a Scottish poet. Born in Dundee, he spent much of his youth and later life in Alyth, where he worked as a local correspondent for the Dundee Advertiser. He later served as chairman of Alyth Town Council. In the 1880s, he was president of Dundee Burns Club.
Collections The New Jerusalem (1879) The Spectre Clock of Alyth (1886) To the Valhalla (1891)
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Scottish poet
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James Young Geddes died in 1913.
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James Young Geddes was a poet and writer.
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