Author: Sillery, Charles Doyne
Biography:
SILLERY, Charles Doyne (1807-36: findmypast.co.uk)
He was the only son of Catherine (Fyfe) of Leith and Charles Doyne Sillery, an artillery officer from Drogheda, Ireland. The ODNB says that he was born in March at Athlone, Ireland, but his baptismal record has him being baptised in Leith on 20 April. The family may have spent time in Spain where his sister was born in 1809, the same year that his father died from wounds sustained at the Battle of Talavera. He joined the navy and served as a midshipman on journeys to China and India, but he gave up a naval career due to poor health and went to Edinburgh to study surgery. He contributed poems to the Edinburgh Literary Journal and published three religious works: Discourse on the Sufferings of Our Saviour (1833), Essay on the Creation of the Universe (1833), and Man of Sorrows (issued after his death in 1836). Another book of verse, The Lyrical Constellation, was also published posthumously in 1836. He died of tuberculosis in May 1836, not 1837 as given in the ODNB. (ODNB 29 Sept. 2020; ancestry.co.uk 29 Sept. 2020; Death notices, Examiner 29 May 1836; findmypast.co.uk 29 Sept. 2020) SR
Other Names:
- C. D. Sillery