Author · Australia
Barcroft Boake
Died in 1892
Barcroft Boake was born on 26 March 1866 in Balmain, near Sydney, the son of a photographer born in Ireland; his mother died in 1879. After a spell in the land survey service, he was an assistant surveyor in the Monaro, a stockman near Trangie, then a drover taking cattle as far as Queensland, and from 1890 to 1891 he worked for the surveyor W. A. Lipscomb, near Wagga Wagga. He then sent his verses to the Bulletin. Back in Sydney at the end of 1891, he left home on 2 May 1892, and was found hanged eight days later at Long Bay.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryWhere the Dead Men LieBarcroft Boake · 1891LiteraturePublic domain