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APPENDIX TO VOLUME I.
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A. (PAGE 12.)
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DOCTOR STREAF AND THE REVEREND EDWARD MANGIN.
Strean was a physician who had taken orders. He died eleven years
ago, at nearly ninety years of age. He then held the perpetual cure of St. Peter's in Athlone j but had in his early life succeeded Henry Goldsmith in the curacy of Kilkenny West, which the latter occupied at the period of his death, and, as he is careful to tell us, in its emolu- ments of £40 a-year, " which was not only his salary, but continued to " be the same when I, a successor, was appointed to that parish." His relative by marriage, the Eev. Edward Mangin, to whose intelligent inquiries (the answers to which are published in an Essay on Light Heading, 12mo. 1808), we owe much of our knowledge of the poet's youth, still lives in Bath.
Thus far I had written in a note appended to my first edition, since
when, on the 17th of October 1852, the life of Mr. Mangin closed at the ripe age of eighty-one. A " friend of forty years" thus wrote of him in the Standard newspaper of a few evenings later:
" Descended from a Huguenot family, who took refuge in Ireland from the
"persecutions in the time of Louis XIV., and who rose to opulent and important " stations in their adopted country, Mr, Mangin had much of the manners of both " France and Ireland—foreign acuteness of conversation, with a remarkable share " of the pleasantry and good humour of the Irish gentleman.
"Educated at Oxford, for the Church, obtaining preferment in Ireland at an
" early age, and always disposed to literature and society, no man could commence "his career under happier auspices, and no man enjoyed it with more manly "gratification. Possessing all the allowable indulgences of life without trouble, '' and thus wanting the great stimulus to exertion, he published but little, and that " little rather as the overflow of a remarkably ingenious mind, than as the labour |
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