Author: St. Leger, Francis Barry Boyle
Biography:
ST. LEGER, Francis Barry Boyle (1799-1829: ODNB)
He was born in Ireland on 16 Sept. 1799, the second son of Richard St. Leger and his wife Ann Blakeney, who had married in 1779. He was educated at Rugby and enlisted as a civil servant in the East India Company (1816-21). He resigned his post and returned to England where he printed the volume of verse listed here and edited a journal, The Album (1822-5). He was also one of the editors of the short-lived periodical The Brazen Head (1826). He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1827. He published three prose tales: Some Account of the Life of the Late Gilbert Earle, Esq. Written By Himself (1824), Mr. Blount’s MSS(1826), and Tales of Passion: Lord Lovel’s Daughter. The Bohemian.--Second Love (1829). An historical work, Froissart and His Times (1832), appeared posthumously. He contributed to the Monthly Magazine and Knight’s Quarterly Magazine and was one of the editors of the London Magazine. In June 1829 he suffered the first of a series of epileptic seizures from which he never fully recovered. He died on 20 Nov. 1829 and was buried on 28 Nov. 1829, at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Southwark. He never married. (ODNB 20 Feb. 2023; DNB; ancestry.co.uk 20 Feb. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 20 Feb. 2023; O’Donoghue; Walker’s Hibernian Magazine 1779, 432; Belle Assemblée, January 1830, 5-9; Belfast News Letter 4 Dec. 1829; New Monthly Magazine Dec. 1829, 3: 541-3; GM Dec. Supplement 1829, 642-3; EN2; Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography [1941], 168) AA
Other Names:
- F. B. B. St. Leger