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Henry Halloran was an Australian poet and civil servant who was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 6 April 1811. After living for some years in England, he arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1822. In 1827 he became a clerk in the Survey Department, and later became chief clerk of the same department.〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Henry Halloran )〕 He was a friend of Henry Parkes who, in February 1866, appointed him under-secretary in the Colonial Secretary's Department and in 1867 a justice of the peace. He was rumoured to have helped Henry Kendall find a job with the department and was generally known for helping young writers.〔 He began publishing his own poetry in various newspapers and periodicals in the 1840s and published four collections of his work during his lifetime.〔(Austlit - Henry Halloran )〕 Halloran retired in 1878 and was made C.M.G. He died at his home, Mowbray, in Ashfield, New South Wales on 19 May 1893.〔 == Bibliography == * ''The Discovery of Eastern Australia and The Unveiling the Captain Cook Statue'' (1879) (Note: This title is correct as per the published volume.〔) * ''Prize Poems on the International Exhibition of New South Wales, 1879'' (1879) * ''Poems, Odes, Songs'' (1887) * ''A Few Love Rhymes of a Married Life'' (1890) * ''Two Early Poems of 1833'' (1977) 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「Henry Halloran (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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