Francis Hastings Charles Doyle
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The Private Of The Buffs
LAST night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd, and swore;
A drunken private of the Buffs,
Who never look'd before.
To-day, beneath the foeman's frown,
He stands in Elgin's place,
Ambassador from Britain's crown
And type of all her race.
Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught,
Bewilder'd, and alone,
A heart with English instinct fraught
He yet can call his own.
Aye, tear his body limb from limb,
Bring cord, or axe, or flame:
He only knows, that not through him
Shall England come to shame.
Far Kentish hop-fields round him seem'd,
Like dreams, to come and go;
Bright leagues of cherry-blossom gleam'd,
One sheet of living snow;
The smoke above his father's door
In grey soft eddyings hung:
Must he then watch it rise no more,
Doom'd by himself, so young?
Yes, honour calls! - with strength like steel
He puts the vision by.
Let dusky Indians whine and kneel;
An English lad must die.
And thus, with eyes that would not shrink,
With knee to man unbent,
Unfaltering on its dreadful brink,
To his red grave he went.
Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed;
Va
Francis Hastings Doyle - Biography
Biography
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 succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Studying law, he was called to the Bar in , and afterwards held various high fiscal appointments, becoming in , Commissioner of Customs. In he published Miscellaneous Verses, followed by Two Destinies (), Oedipus, King of Thebes (), and Return of the Guards ().
He was elected in Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Doyle's best work is his ballads, which include The Red Thread of Honour, The Private of the Buffs, and The Loss of the Birkenhead. In his longer poems his genuine poetical feeling was not equalled by his power of expression, and much of his poetry is commonplace.
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He was born at Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, on 22 Aug. and baptised on 3 Nov. at Bolton Percy, the son of Major-General Sir Francis Hastings () and Diana Elizabeth Milner (), who had married at St. Marylebone, London, in His father was created baronet in ; on his death in Francis Hastings Doyle inherited the title. He went to school at Eton in where he was friends with Arthur Hallam (q.v.) and with William Gladstone whom he assisted in editing The Eton Miscellany (), to which he contributed verse. He proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied classics (matric. , BA ) and to All Souls (Fellow and , BCL , MA , DCL ). He was called to the bar in and was Receiver-General of Customs and Commissioner of Customs but he had extensive literary interests and was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in (after Matthew Arnold). Two courses of these lectures were printed in and Miscellaneous Verses (), reissued with additional poems in and a second edition in , was followed by The Two Destinies (), The Vision of Er, the Pamphylian (), The Return of
&#;DOYLE, Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES, second baronet (–), poet, born at the house of his grandfather, Sir William Mordaunt Milner, at Nunappleton, near Tadcaster in Yorkshire, on 21 Aug. , was the only son of Major-general Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, first baronet (–), by his wife Diana Elizabeth (d. 14 Jan. ), eldest daughter of Sir William Milner. General Sir John Doyle, baronet [q. v.], was his great-uncle; while General Sir Charles Hastings Doyle [q. v.] was his second cousin, and Lieutenant-general Sir Charles William Doyle [q. v.] and Colonel Sir John Milley Doyle [q. v.] were his father's first cousins. He was first sent to a well-known private school at Chelsea, kept by a Frenchman named Clement, where Walter Kerr Hamilton [q. v.], (Sir) Henry John Codrington [q. v.], and others afterwards well known were his contemporaries. At the beginning of he entered Eton as the pupil of Richard Okes [q. v.], and under the head-mastership of John Keate [q. v.] There, through the debating society held at Miss Hatton's, 'a cook and confectioner,' he formed friendships with Gladstone, Arthur Henry Hal
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