Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, and barrister-at-law. Alternative signature: W. P. Maunsell. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Married Richarda Gabbett on 12 November 1861. Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Also lived in Fairyfield, Kalmallock. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Sonnet, published on 26 July 1890, gives Maunsell’s address as 3 Neptune Terrace, Sandy Cove, Co. Dublin (NLS Dep 341/370). Biographical information: The Peerage http://www.thepeerage.com/p39077.htm#i390762 (11 March 2022); Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, The Proceedings and Papers of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1890-1891, vol. 1, fifth series, Ponsonby and Weldrick, 1892, p. 33. (AC, CC)