Francis Hoyland ( fl. 1763), was an English poet.

Life

Hoyland was the son of James Hoyland of

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, Yorkshire, and was born in 1727. He was educated in a school at Halifax, and on 18 June 1744 matriculated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1748. Soon afterwards he seems to have made a voyage to the

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to recruit his health. He took holy orders, was the friend of

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, and was introduced, probably by Mason, to

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

, who exerted himself on his behalf, and printed his poems at the

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in 1769. From Hoyland's works it may be gathered that he was married and poor. The date of his death is uncertain. In 1769 he was very ill, and his illness prevented him from accepting an offer of a living in

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Works

He wrote: *'Poems and Translations,' London, 1763, containing three metrical versions of psalms by J. Caley. *'Poems,' another edition, slightly altered, Strawberry Hill, 1769 Two impressions with different title-pages appeared the same year. *'Odes,' Edinburgh, 1783. His poems were reprinted in vol.xli. of the 'British Poets' (ed.

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), 1808, and in the 'British Poets,' 1822, vol. lxxiii. 8vo.

References

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