William-Henry-OGILVIE 1900

Will H. OGILVIE (1869--1963), Scottish-Australian bush poet, balladeer, and Border poet. Scottish-born poet and author who immigrated to Australia in 1889 and worked as a station hand and a horsebreaker. In 1901 he returned to Scotland and became a regular contributor to Punch. He wrote books of Scottish prose and verse and his bush experience in Australia is described in My Life in the Open, written in 1908. Photograph with subject's signature