Up for auction "2nd Baronet"  Francis Hastings Doyle Hand Written Letter Dated 1832. 

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Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1810 – 8 June 1888)  was a British poet. 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.[2] 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