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Matthew Joseph Keogh, sometimes known as Matthew ('Whiskers') Keogh, was a brush fencer and rustic furniture builder who wrote under the pseudonym 'Gumsucker' (a colloqualism for people born in or resident in Victoria) which had originally been used as a pseudonym by Sarah A. C. A. Roland (q.v.) in 1870 in Ballarat. In addition to his poetry books, Keogh published during World War I the songs The Charge Australians Made and The Small Still Voice, music by A. C. Quin, who, to confuse matters, has been incorrectly identified by some sources as 'Gumsucker'. Keogh was also the author of the family history Picking Up the Scattered Links. However, the play King Henry the Ninth or, The Rival Water Schemes : A Comedy of Errors, by M.J. Keogh, self published in Sydney in 1885, which has hitherto been arttbuted to Matthew Keogh (by Miller and Macartney, etc) is most probably by a different author. Matthew Keogh was only 15 when it was published and was almost certainly not living in Sydney.