Life
?1749-1830; b. ?Dublin; wrote scandalous and amusing account of travels, Memoirs, published 1913-25, describes addiction to women and claret; his father Joseph appears in Goldsmith’s The Retaliation. DIW
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Notes
Namesake (s): William Hickey [[pseud. “Martin Doyle”] (1787-1875) - q.v.; , William Hickey, author of The Virgin Widow, a poem (Lon. 1857) and other Indian works; a missionary in India cited in [D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (1912).
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