Charles Heavysege

Charles Heavysege (1816-1876), born in Huddersfield in Yorkshire, left school at nine for the workshop and became a wood carver, a trade he practised in Liverpool until his departure. Having emigrated to Montreal in 1853, he worked wood there, then entered journalism in 1860: he was a reporter at the Montreal Transcript, then at the Daily Witness, where he became head of local news. A self-taught man steeped in the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare, he wrote several verse dramas on biblical subjects. He died in Montreal.

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• TheatreSaulCharles Heavysege · 1857LiteraturePublic domain