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He was born at Rathdowney on 4 November 1820, was elder son of Michael Dunphy of Rathdowney House, Rathdowney, Queen"s County, Ireland, and of Fleet Street, Dublin, merchant, and his wife Kate Woodroffe.
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He was born at Rathdowney on 4 November 1820, was elder son of Michael Dunphy of Rathdowney House, Rathdowney, Queen"s County, Ireland, and of Fleet Street, Dublin, merchant, and his wife Kate Woodroffe.
Charles Dunphie was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Coming to London, he studied medicine at King"s College Hospital, where he was a favourite pupil of Sir William Fergusson, but soon took to literature and journalism.
Foreign some years he was on The Times staff, and when the Crimean War broke out in 1853 he was offered the post of its special correspondent. During the war, he was one of the founders of the Patriotic Fund Journal (1854-1855), a weekly miscellany of general literature, to which he contributed prose and verse under the pseudonym of "Melopoyn," the profits being devoted to the Patriotic Fund. In 1856 he left The Times to become art and dramatic critic to the Morning Post. which he continued until 1895.
Dunphie died at his house, 54 Finchley Road, on 7 July 1908, and was buried at Putney Vale cemetery.
Besides two sons, he left a daughter, Agnes Anne, wife of Sir George Anderson Critchett, first baronet.
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