Henry Edward Doyle CB (1827 - 1892)

Born 1827 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Died 17 Feb 1892 at about age 65 in Mayfair, Westminster, London, England

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Biography

Henry Doyle CB is Notable.

Henry Doyle b 1827 the third son of John Doyle (author of the "H. B." political sketches) by Marianne, daughter of Mr. James Conan, of Dublin.

Henry married in 1866 to Jane Ball, dau of Nicholas Ball, Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. ^[1]

... appointed Commissioner for Rome at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and for his services in that capacity was nominated a Knight of the Order of Pius IX... Art Superintendent of the International Exhibition of 1865, in Dublin; and honorary secretary of the National Portrait Gallery in connection with that of 1872. in the same city. He was elected by the Board of Governors Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, in 1869 on the death of George Francis Mulvany, R.H.A., the first holder of that office... During his twenty-three years' incumbency of the directorship of the Irish National Gallery, he raised that collection from insignificance to a more than respectable place among the minor galleries of Europe, and that in spite of extreme parsimony on the part of the treasury." ^[2]

Henry Doyle was created a C.B. in 1880, and a J.P. for Wicklow in 1884. ^[3]

Burial St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London Borough of Brent, Greater London, England Grave 4425 ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/henry-edward-doyle.php
2. ↑ "Wikipedia: 'Henry Edward Doyle'"
3. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Doyle,_Henry_Edward_(DNB01)
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114097813/henry-edward-doyle

See also:

• "A dictionary of Irish artists" by Walter G. Strickland; ... v.1 publ 1913 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011494054;view=1up;seq=355 p 295