About Thomas Noel
Lived 1799 – 1861 (aged 62). Thomas Noel was a poet and writer.
Thomas Noel (11 May 1799 – 22 May 1861 ) was an English poet.
The son of a clergyman, Noel graduated from Oxford in 1824. He married Emily Anne Halliday in 1831.
Noel lived for many years in seclusion at Boyne Hill, near Maidenhead; but in the autumn of 1858 he went to live at Brighton, where he died on 16 May 1861. Miss Mitford corresponded with him frequently, but they never met. Among other friends were Thomas Vardon, and Lady Byron.
Works The Cottage Muse, 1833 Village Verse, 1841 Rymes and Roundelayes, 1841
The "Pauper's Drive" from Rymes and Roundelayes was set to music by Henry Russell in 1839. Noel also wrote the words of the song Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.
Family By his wife Emily, youngest daughter of Captain Halliday of Ham Lodge, Twickenham, Noel left two children.
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English poet (1799-1861)
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