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DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOYLE, See also:SIR See also:FRANCIS See also:HASTINGS See also:CHARLES , See also:Bart. (,8,o-1888), See also:English See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Nunappleton, See also:Yorkshire, on the 21st of See also:August 181o. He was the son of See also:Major-See also:General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1st See also:baronet (1783-1839), and was educated at See also:Eton and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he took a first-class in See also:classics in 1831. He read for the See also:bar and was called in 1837. He had been elected to a fellowship of All Souls' in 1835, and his interests were chiefly See also:literary. Among his intimate See also:friends was Mr See also:Gladstone, at whose See also:marriage he assisted as " best man "; but in later See also:life their See also:political opinions widely differed. In 1834 he published See also:Miscellaneous Verses, reissued with additions in 184o. This was followed by Two Destinies (1844), The See also:Duke's Funeral (1852), Return of the See also:Guards and other Poems (1866); and from 1867 to 1877 he was See also:professor of See also:poetry at Oxford. In 1869 some of the lectures he delivered were published in See also:book See also:form. One of the most interesting was his appreciation of See also:William See also:Barnes, and the See also:essay on See also:Newman's See also:Dream of Gerontius was translated into See also:French. In 1886 he published his Reminiscences, full of records of the interesting See also:people he had known. Sir Francis Doyle succeeded his See also:father (chairman of the See also:board of See also:excise) as 2nd baronet in 1839, and in 1844 married See also:Sidney, daughter of Charles See also:Watkin See also:Williams See also:Wynn (1775-1850).

From 1845 he held various important offices in the customs. He died on the 8th of See also:

June 1888. Doyle's poetry is memorable for certain isolated and spirited pieces in praise of See also:British fortitude.

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