Francis Hastings Doyle

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Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1810 – 8 June 1888) was a British poet.<ref name="ODNB">Template:Cite ODNB</ref>

Biography

Doyle was born at Nunappleton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to a family which produced several army officers, including his father, Major-General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1st Baronet, created a baronet in 1828.<ref name="baronetcy">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="SBDEL">Template:Cite SBDEL</ref><ref name="Reilly2000">Template:Cite book</ref> His mother was Diana Elizabeth Milner (died 1828), daughter of Sir William Milner, 3rd Baronet of Nunappleton. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1839.<ref name="Burke">Template:Cite book</ref>

Doyle was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1828, graduating B.A. in 1832 with a degree in classics. He was a Fellow of All Souls College from 1835 to 1845.<ref name="alox">Template:Alox2</ref><ref name="EB1911">Template:Cite EB1911</ref> Among his Oxford friends was William Gladstone, at whose marriage he was best man, but in later life their political opinions widely differed.<ref name="EB1911"/> Studying law from 1832, he was called to the Bar in 1837 at the Inner Temple, and went the Northern Circuit.<ref name="alox"/><ref name="Men">Template:Cite Men-at-the-Bar</ref>

Later Doyle held fiscal appointments, becoming in 1846 receiver-general of Customs, a post he held to 1869. He moved in 1869 to commissioner of Customs, and held that position to 1883.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Doyle was elected in 1867 Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He held the post to 1877.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Men"/>

Works

Doyle was known as a poet mostly for ballads including The Red Thread of Honour (translated into Pashto), The Private of the Buffs, and The Loss of the Birkenhead.<ref name="SBDEL"/><ref name="ODNB"/> He published:

• Miscellaneous Verses (1834)<ref name="EB1911"/>
• Two Destinies (1844)<ref name="EB1911"/>
• Oedipus, King of Thebes (1849)<ref name="EB1911"/>
• The Return of the Guards: And Other Poems (1866)<ref name="Reilly2000"/><ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Lectures on Poetry: Delivered at Oxford (Second Series) (1877). Includes Installation Ode, and other poems.<ref name="Reilly2000"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1869 some of the first series lectures Doyle had delivered were published in book form. One was his appreciation of William Barnes.<ref name="EB1911"/> An essay on John Henry Newman's The Dream of Gerontius, from the second series, was translated into French.<ref name="ODNB"/>
• Robin Hood's Bay: An Ode Addressed to the English People (1878), anonymous<ref name="Reilly2000"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1813-1885 (1886)<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Family

In 1844, Doyle married Sidney Williams-Wynn (died 1867), daughter of the MP Charles Williams-Wynn. The couple had three sons and two daughters:<ref name="Burke"/>

• The eldest son Francis Granville Doyle (1846–1882), in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, died of typhoid fever after serving in the Anglo-Egyptian War.<ref name="Burke"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• The second son Everard Hastings Doyle (1852–1933) succeeded to the baronetcy. He was Clerk of Committees at the House of Commons, and died unmarried.<ref name="Burke"/>
• Arthur Havelock James Doyle succeeded as 4th Baronet.<ref name="Burke"/>
• The elder daughter Mary Annabel (died 1924) married in 1885 Charles Carmichael Lacaita, MP and botanist.<ref name="Burke"/><ref>Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886</ref>
• The younger daughter Sidney Annora died unmarried in 1873.<ref name="Burke"/>

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