The identity of 'Pindar Juvenal' has not been firmly established, but is widely considered to be Robert Wales.One of the reasons for this is that 'Robert Wales of Launceston' is inscribed beneath 'Pindar Juvenal' on the title page of one of the few known copies of this book, held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Miller discusses the authorship of the book in a section of Pressmen and Governors (1952). He outlines the case for 'Pindar Juvenal' being Robert Wales, and also raises the possibility that 'Pindar Juvenal' could be two authors, Robert Wales and Evan Henry Thomas.
Wales arrived in Hobart Town in 1823, and shortly afterwards set up residence in Launceston. There he worked as a clerk to the Court of Returns and Bench of Magistrates. He married Eliza Minnett, of Norfolk Plains, in 1828. In February 1829 he was appointed first editor of the Launceston Advertiser, but resigned from this position on the publication of the second number, 16 February 1829. In the 1840s and 1850s Wales was associated with the police magistracy in the Evandale district. He died in 1855 from blood poisoning as the result of an accident. (Source : E. Morris Miller Pressmen and Governors (1952))
