Francis Hastings Doyle
Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1810 – 8 June 1888)[1] was a British poet.
Biography
Doyle was born near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his father, Major-General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1st Baronet, who was created a baronet in 1828.[2] He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1839.
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a degree in classics in 1831.[3]
Studying law, he was called to the Bar in 1837, but his interestes were chiefly literary. Among his friends was
He was elected in 1867
In 1869 some of the lectures he delivered were published in book form. One was his appreciation of William Barnes, and the essay on Newman's The Dream of Gerontius was translated into French. In 1886 he published his Reminiscences, full of records of the interesting people he had known.[3]
Family
In 1844, he married Sydney Williams-Wynn, daughter of the MP Charles Williams-Wynn.
His eldest son Francis Granville Doyle (1846–1882) died of typhoid fever.[5]
Doyle's daughter Mary married
The baronetcy passed to a younger son Sir Everard Hastings Doyle, 3rd Baronet upon his death, and then later to his other son, Sir Arthur Havelock James Doyle, 4th Baronet.
References
- ^ E. I. Carlyle, ‘Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, second baronet (1810–1888)’, rev. Charles Brayne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 462. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ John William Cousin A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (1910) London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
- ^ "The Late Captain Doyle". Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. Oswestry: Caxton Press: 162–163. December 1882.
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- Foster, Joseph (1885). . (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 129.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.