Men-at-the-Bar/Doyle, Francis Hastings Charles

by Joseph Foster

Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, Bart., D.C.L. Oxon 1877, B.A. Christ Church 1832, M.A. 1867, sometime fellow All Souls', professor of poetry at Oxford 1867–77, went the Northern circuit, receiver-general of customs 1846–69, a commissioner of customs 1869–83, a student of the Inner Temple 11 Oct., 1832 (then aged 22), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1837 (only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart.); born 22 Aug., 1810; married 12 Dec., 1844, Sidney, youngest dau. of late Rt. Hon. Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn; she died 22 Nov., 1867, leaving issue (see Foster's Baronetage).

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