Sir Noel Paton

Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) was a Scottish painter and poet, born in Dunfermline, who became Queen's Limner for Scotland and was knighted in 1867. He published two volumes of verse, Poems by a Painter (1861) and Spindrift (1867).

Lyra Celtica prints two of his poems, 'Midnight by the Sea' and 'In Shadowland'.