The poet William Allingham died at the age of 65. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Irish poet, editor, and author who is most known for his Diary and for his poem “The Faeries.” Also an editor, he began working for Fraser’s Magazine in 1874.
He was married to Helen Paterson Allingham, an illustrator and water-color artist. The couple had three children.
Quotes
"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
"Autumn’s the mellow time.
"I have been an ‘Official’ all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
"If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.