Life
1799-1871; b. Dublin, ed. Belfast ?College, 1819; ordained for minister,
but took to journalism; became editor in Paisley, and associated with
Paisley Mag., and later in Hull; ed. The continental Annual (1832), contrib.
The amulet, 1829-31; prose stories, My Early Days (aetat. 25), and An
Only son (1831), both anon.; secretary to Lord Durham in Canada, later
Brit. consul in Texas; d. Paris; Fitful Fancies, poem (Edin 1827);
The Arrow and the Rose and other Poems (London 1830); The Siege of
Antwerp, hist. play in verse (Lon 1838); also Texas, the Rise,
Progress and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, 2 vols. (London 1841).
NOTE, PI adds circumstantial discuss of his possible birth places, his
relationship with several Ulstermen, and the errors in the standard American
account of his death. PI RAF
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Notes
REF Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic
Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. I;
1799-1871; b. Dublin, ed. Belfast, with J. Sheridan Knowles teaching,
and Scotland, theolog; followed Byron’s example and served in the
Greek revolution [Chk.]; ed. in London The Englishman’s Magazine
(April-Oct 1831); USA in 1838; Consul in Texas, 1841-1847. d. Paris. Works
include poems and prose; The Siege of Antwerp, 5 act hist. drama
(1838); Texas, the Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Republic of
Texas (London 1841). Commentaries, IBL II, 11 (1911). Also Life
of W. Kennedy, Poet, Journalist and British Consul 1799-1871 (Dungannon,
1920) 57p.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)