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Biography

Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) [prop. Vere Hunt, occas. Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt; afterwards Sir Aubrey de Vere (2nd Baronet); sometimes styled Earl of Oxford on t.p.]; b. 28 Aug. 1788 at Curragh Chase, Co. Limerick; ed. Harrow, with Byron; chiefly spent his life at Chevy Chase, as an ‘improving’ Limerick landlord; m. Mary Spring-Rice in 1807; succeeded as second baronet, 1818; adapted his name to de Vere in 1832; began writing poetry at thirty; contrib. National Magazine, Gem, Dublin Penny Journal, Keepsake, and Dublin Literary Journal; offered Gerald Griffin a room to write in Curragh Chase; issued verse-dramas, Julian the Apostle (1822), The Duke of Mercia (1823), with which the “Lamentation of Ireland” [longer poem]; also Mary Tudor (1847), with which “Lamentation of Ireland”, inter al.; also collections incl. Song of Faith (1842), on patriotism, courage, freedom, and religious awe; d. 28 July 1846 at Curragh Chase; his son Aubrey de Vere edited his works after his death as Sonnets (1847, rep. 1975) and Dramatic Works (1858); de Vere was a life-long admirer and latterly a friend of Wordsworth, who visited Ireland him 1829 and whom he visited at Rydal Mount after.

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