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= A. J. McGeoch = Andrew Jackson McGeoch (26 April 1900 - 1991) was a Scottish poet, writer, playwright and freelance journalist. His poetical work includes four collections: Annus Mirabilis, The Alighting Leaf, Themes and Variations, and Time and the Hour, among various other individual poems. Although his primary creative medium and that which he is most remembered by is his poetry, he was also the author of a play, The Golden Calf, an autobiography called Evocations as well as a historical book about his family's ships' equipment manufacturer, titled A Hundred and Fifty Years of Enterprise: A History of William McGeoch & Co. Ltd..

Life
Andrew Jackson McGeoch was born in Glasgow on 26 April 1990, the eldest son in a family of seven. His father was Lauchlan Alexander McGeoch and his mother Margaret Sayers Wilson. He was educated at the Kelvinside Academy, Larchfield School, Helensburgh, and Mill School, London. In 1940, he married Leila Pauline Bell, and they had a daughter, Gay Christine Kesteven.

He entered his family business, which was concerned mainly with ships' hardware and electric equipment, in 1919, during which time he wrote much of his poetry and worked as a freelance journalist, before retiring later on life.

Poetry

 * Annus Mirabilis
 * The Alighting Leaf
 * Themes and Variations
 * Time and the Hour
 * Collected Poems by A.J. McGeoch

Plays

 * The Golden Calf

Non-fiction

 * Evocations
 * A Hundred and Fifty Years of Enterprise: A History of William McGeoch & Co. Ltd.