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ALFRED DOMETT (1811-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED See also:DOMETT (1811-1887)  , See also:British colonial statesman and poet, was See also:born at See also:Camberwell See also:Grove, See also:Surrey, on the loth of May 1811 . He entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, but See also:left the university in 1833 . He published one or two volumes of See also:poetry and contributed several poems to See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, one of which, " A See also:Christmas Hymn," attracted much admiring See also:attention . For ten years he lived a See also:life of ease in See also:London, where he became the intimate friend of See also:Robert See also:Browning, of whose poem " Waring " he was the subject . An interesting See also:account of the friendship between the two men appeared in The See also:Con-temporary See also:Review for See also:January 1905, by W . H . See also:Griffin . (See also Robert Browning and See also:Alfred See also:Domett, edited by F . G . See also:Kenyon, 1906) . In 1842 Domett emigrated to New See also:Zealand where he filled many important administrative posts, being colonial secretary for New See also:Munster in 1848, secretary for the See also:colony in 1851, and See also:prime See also:minister in 1862 . He returned to See also:England in 1871, was created C.M.G. in 188o, and died on the 2nd of See also:November 1887 .

Among his books of poetry, Ranolf and Amohia, a See also:

South See also:Sea See also:Day See also:Dream, is the best known (1872), and See also:Flotsam and Jetsam (1877) is dedicated to Browning .

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