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Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1810 – 8 June 1888)〔E. I. Carlyle, ‘Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, second baronet (1810–1888)’, rev. Charles Brayne, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004.〕 was a British poet. ==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 1828.〔 He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1839. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Studying law, he was called to the Bar in 1837, and afterwards held various high fiscal appointments, becoming in 1869, Commissioner of Customs. In 1834 he published ''Miscellaneous Verses'', followed by ''Two Destinies'' (1844), ''Oedipus, King of Thebes'' (1849), and ''Return of the Guards'' (1866). He was elected in 1867 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.〔John William Cousin ''A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature'' (1910) London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Hastings Doyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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