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The Bishop of Limerick was Thomas Barnard. The Gentleman's Magazine (lxxvi. 588) reported he died on 7 June 1806. A premature report of his death must have reached Hester.

Thraliana May 1806.

Another Death! nothing else indeed I think—the pleasant Bishop of Limerick; gay, gallant, chearful Creature that he was— when known by name of Barnard Dean of Derry: Friend & Companion to dear little Goldsmith, Reynolds, Burke, Johnson; all the old Coterie of the Turks Head: where after Supper he used to sing the Song of Polypheme in Acis & Galatea :—Can one then _help_ exclaiming …

Has then the Dean of Derry:
Past o’er the darksome Ferry?
Who once more bright
Than Torch by Night
Shone forth ’mong Wits so merry!

He to the Grape’s ripe Cluster
Could lend Convivial Lustre;
When blythe & gay
In Garrick’s Day
Sweet Mirth her Friends did muster.

But since the Dean of Derry
Has cross’d the Stygian Ferry;
Wit Sense and Worth
Shall joyn with Mirth,
And cry We are griev’d,—ay Very!

Verses "The Dean of Derry" by Hester Lynch Thrale




DateMay 1806
Linked toThraliana by Hester Lynch Thrale; Hester Lynch SALUSBURY

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