Robert W. Service, English-French poet and author (born 1874)

Robert W. Service

British-Canadian poet and writer (1874–1958)

Robert William Service was an English-born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and…