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ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 696 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLINGHAM, See also:WILLIAM (1824-1889) , Irish See also:man of letters and poet, was See also:born at See also:Ballyshannon, See also:Donegal, on the 19th of See also:March 1824 (or 1828, according to some authorities), and was the son of the manager of a See also:local See also:bank. He obtained a See also:post in the See also:custom-See also:house of his native See also:town and filled several similar situations in See also:Ireland and See also:England until 1870, when he had retired from the service, and became sub-editor of See also:Fraser's See also:Magazine, which he edited from 1874 to 1879. He had published a See also:volume of Poems in 1850, followed by See also:Day and See also:Night Songs, a volume containing many charming lyrics, in 1855. Allingham was on terms of See also:close friendship with D. G. See also:Rossetti, who contributed to the See also:illustration of the Songs. His Letters to Allingham (1854–1870) were edited by Dr See also:Birkbeck See also:Hill in 1897. See also:Lawrence See also:Bloomfield, a narrative poem illustrative of Irish social questions, appeared in 1864. Allingham married in 1874 See also:Helen See also:Paterson, known under her married name as a See also:water-See also:colour painter. He died at See also:Hampstead on the 18th of See also:November 1889. Though working on an unostentatious See also:scale, Allingham produced much excellent lyrical and descriptive See also:poetry, and the best of his pieces are thoroughly See also:national in spirit and local colouring. William Allingham: a See also:Diary (1907), edited by Mrs Allingham and D.

Radford, contains many interesting reminiscences of See also:

Tennyson, See also:Carlyle and other famous contemporaries.

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