• born at Tinonee, N.S.W., 23rd May, 1872; of Scottish parentage • unmarried • short stories published in The Bulletin • NOVELS: In a Man's Mind, London, 1896; An Earthly Fulfilment, London, 1899. • An Earthly Fulfilment by 'J. R. Watson' highlighted by Wigg & Son 'Newest and Best Fiction of the Month' in The West Australian through August 1899 • described in 1900 by A. W. Jose, Angus & Robertson's Reader, as too 'sexual' for a 'respectable English paper'