Life
1822-1879; b. nr. Omagh, Co. Tyrone; Methodist preacher at Kinsale, Cork, Belfast, and Dublin; went to London, 1855, and to Australia, 1864-76; drowned attempting to rescue his niece at Cape May in America; poems, memoirs and sermons; biography by a brother. PI DUB
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); brief details only, b. nr. Omagh, Tyrone 1822; drowned 1879; author of Poems Sacred, Didactic, and Descriptive (2nd edn. London 1861) [with photo-port]; a memoir by C. Graham (London 1880).
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