Hugh MacDonald (journalist)

Hugh MacDonald (4 April 1817 – 16 March 1860) was a Scottish journalist, poet and author from Glasgow.

[6] He was apprenticed to a block printer at the Barrowfield calico-printing works[2] and briefly ran a grocer's shop in 1848.

He initially continued to live in Bridgeton and walked to Paisley for work each day,[4] before temporarily relocating to the Renfrewshire town.

[6] In 1847 he came to public attention when he wrote a letter to the Glasgow Citizen defending the poetry of Robert Burns against an attack by Rev.

He wrote articles under the pen name Caleb, many of them of on social or political issues,[2] but it was his series of Glasgow travelogues, published over a period of three years, for which he became well known.

[4] MacDonald became ill in spring 1860 after an expedition to Castlemilk to research his planned book, Footsteps of the Year.