(father of W. B. Yeats [WBY]); b. 16 March 1839, at Tullylish, Co. Down, son of Church of Ireland rector [see under WBY, Genealogy, infra]; ed.
first at Liverpool, and afterwards Atholl Academy, on the Isle of Man, under a brutal Scottish headmaster, with Charles and George Pollexfen; then at TCD, 1857; stayed with his grandmother, great aunts and uncle Robert Corbet at Sandymount Castle; formed friendship with Edward Dowden and his br.
John (later bishop of Edinburgh), and John Todhunter; eleced auditor of Law Students Debating Soc.; spent a post-grad. Born May 10, , Dublin, Ireland, a.k.a.year at TCD; won £10 prize in political economy, as only entrant; |
visited Pollexfens in Sligo with the money; became engaged to Susan Mar Pollexfen, 2 Sept. 1862; following the death of his father and his inheritance of Kildare estate, m.
Susan, 10 Sept. 1863, at St. Johns Church, Sligo; studied law in Dublin (Kings Inns); entered Irish Bar, 1866, and bri
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