William Kirby

William Kirby (1817–1906) was an English-born Canadian writer who settled at Niagara-on-the-Lake. He is best known for the historical novel The Golden Dog (1877).

His verse includes the long poem The U. E.: A Tale of Upper Canada (1859). One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.