John Davidson was born On This Day 11 April 1857
He lived at 9 Fairmile Road before moving to Penzance in 1906
A Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German.
Davidson's portrait was drawn by Walter Sickert and by Robert Bryden
In 1906 he was awarded a civil list pension of £100 per annum and George Bernard Shaw did what he could to help him financially, but poverty, ill-health, and his declining powers, exacerbated by the onset of cancer, caused profound hopelessness and clinical depression.
In 1909 he committed suicide in Penzance.
He lived at 9 Fairmile Road before moving to Penzance in 1906
A Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German.
Davidson's portrait was drawn by Walter Sickert and by Robert Bryden
In 1906 he was awarded a civil list pension of £100 per annum and George Bernard Shaw did what he could to help him financially, but poverty, ill-health, and his declining powers, exacerbated by the onset of cancer, caused profound hopelessness and clinical depression.
In 1909 he committed suicide in Penzance.
