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 remarkable for his great strength and stature, and of very various talents—something of a poet, painter, architect, and musician, and also a considerable linguist and mathematician. He died in 1830. The poet's mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Fytche, and who was herself the daughter of a clergyman, lived to see her son famous, and died in 1865 at an advanced age.

Those who care to study pedigrees will find, on referring to Burke's "Dictionary of the Landed Gentry," that our Poet can claim descent from a very ancient family—the D'Eyncourts of the Norman times, whose name has, by royal licence, been resumed by an elder branch of the house.