Biography of francis hastings charles doyle and john

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 He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford , graduating with a degree in classics in Studying law, he was called to the Bar in , but his interestes were chiefly literary.

Among his friends was William Gladstone , at whose marriage he assisted as best man , but in later life their political opinions widely differed.

Biography of francis hastings charles doyle and john: Biography. Doyle was born near Tadcaster,

He was elected in Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In his longer poems his genuine poetical feeling was not equalled by his power of expression, and much of his poetry is commonplace. In some of the lectures he delivered were published in book form. In he published his Reminiscences , full of records of the interesting people he had known.

His eldest son Francis Granville Doyle — died of typhoid fever. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William London: J. Contents move to sidebar hide.