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He was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College.
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Astronomer literary critic mathematician writer poet
He was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College.
Having decided to follow a literary career, in 1820 he went to London. Darley fell into depression, and died on 23 November 1846 in London. Playwright Dion Boucicault was a nephew.
His grandnephew was the Irish musician Arthur Warren Darley.
A. East. Housman said of a passage from his poem, "Admirers of the sea may call that a lampoon or a caricature, but they cannot deny that it is life-like: the man who wrote it had seen the sea, and the man who reads it sees the sea again".
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