Background
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.
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David Wingate
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In the 1850s he worked in Pollokshaws and later Bellshill. By 1862 he was living in Motherwell. In this year his Poems and Songs (1862) was published by William Blackwood, favourably reviewed, then followed by Annie Weir (1866).
After this he studied at the Glasgow School of Mines, became a colliery manager, and devoted his increased leisure to study and further literary work.
Lily Neil appeared in 1879, and was followed by another volume of Poems and Songs (1883). In 1882 he was granted a civil list pension of £50 per year.
A collection of his work came out in 1890 as Selected Poems. He is buried in Motherwell.
Poems and Songs (1862)
Poems including Annie Weir.
