Thomas Fleming Day

Thomas Fleming Day, born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in 1861, went to the United States as a child in 1868. He was the son of a professor of natural science at the Normal College, New York.

From 1895 he edited the yachting monthly The Rudder; his verse includes Songs of Sea and Sail, and “The Coasters” was printed in Stedman’s An American Anthology (1900).