“The great desire of a good citizen should be to fill up, as far as possible, the gulfs that separate one set of Englishmen from another.”
About Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888
Francis Hastings Doyle, born on 21 August 1810 and dead on 8 June 1888, belonged to that characteristic Victorian class of cultivated public men for whom poetry was not an isolated vocation but one element in a life shaped by education, law, inherited social position, public duty, and moral reflection. He was a…