thrale & thrall family history
Hester Lynch Salusbury
1741 - 1821 (80 years)
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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 brightThan Torch by NightShone forth ’mong Wits so merry!He to the Grape’s ripe ClusterCould lend Convivial Lustre;When blythe & gayIn Garrick’s DaySweet Mirth her Friends did muster.But since the Dean of DerryHas cross’d the Stygian Ferry;Wit Sense and WorthShall joyn with Mirth,And cry We are griev’d,—ay Very!
Thraliana May 1806.
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.
The Stygian Ferry is a reference to the Greek mythological river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
Verses "The Dean of Derry" by Hester Lynch Thrale
| Date | May 1806 |
| Linked to | Hester Lynch Salusbury |
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