Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, an English poet, born near Tadcaster; bred to the bar, but devoted to poetry and horse-racing; became professor of Poetry at Oxford; author of “Miscellaneous Verses,” “Two Destinies,” “Retreat of the Guards,” “The Thread of Honour,” and “The Private of the Buffs” (1810‒1858).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Doyle, Dr. Conan * Doyle, John