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He was educated in private schools and earned a degree in medicine in 1831 at Trinity College, Dublin.
He lived in the backwoods of Canada, Germany (Göttingen, Jena), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels) and Italy (Como, Florence, Spezia, Trieste), where he died of heart failure.