Doyle, Francis Hastings Charles
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Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888); poet and civil servant.
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Francis Hastings Doyle, second baronet (1810–1888; Oxford DNB); poet and civil servant. Elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1867. Among his better-known ballads are 'The Red Thread of Honour', 'The Private of the Buffs', 'The Fusilier's Dog', 'The Loss of the Birkenhead', and 'Mehrab Khan'.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry
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Portrait of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. Engraving. c. 1880. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Francis_Hastings_Doyle_engraving_circa_1880.jpg.
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“Doyle, Francis Hastings Charles,” The History of the Society of Authors, 1884–1914, accessed April 24, 2024, https://historysoa.com/people/Doyle-Francis-Hastings-Charles.