John butler yeats biography of martin garrix

(father of W.

B. Yeats [WBY]); b.

It's about how a child admires and was influenced by his mentor and father figure, also a look at the pain a man experiences as he reflects on.

16 March 1839, at Tullylish, Co. Down, son of Church of Ireland rector [see under WBY, Genealogy, infra]; ed. first at Liverpool, and afterwards Atholl Academy, on the Isle of Man, under a brutal Scottish headmaster, with Charles and George Pollexfen; then at TCD, 1857; stayed with his grandmother, great aunts and uncle Robert Corbet at Sandymount Castle; formed friendship with Edward Dowden and his br.

John (later bishop of Edinburgh), and John Todhunter; eleced auditor of Law Students’ Debating Soc.; spent a post-grad. year at TCD; won £10 prize in political economy, as only entrant;

visited Pollexfens in Sligo with the money; became engaged to Susan Mar Pollexfen, 2 Sept.

1862; following the death of his father and his inheritance of Kildare estate, m. Susan, 10 Sept. 1863, at St. John’s Church, Sligo; studied law in Dublin (King’s Inns); entered Irish Bar, 1866, and bri