David Wingate (poet)
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David Wingate (poet)
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David Wingate (1828–1892) was a Scottish poet and miner, sometimes known as 'the collier poet'. His father died when he was five years old. Wingate started work in the coal-fields near his home in Cowglen, Renfrewshire when he was nine, and at 17 he was the main breadwinner for his mother and family. He married Janet Craig in 1850 and had 11 children, including Walter who became a poet and teacher. In the 1850s he worked in Pollokshaws and later Bellshill. After his first wife died he married hi
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