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Thanks for the helpful replies, guys.
@Nate the great:
I had seen those records before, but some more digging around now, I managed to find some other records that make me fairly sure I've nailed this finally. He seems to have been born about 1861, according to the 1901 England census, and this entry makes me fairly certain that the Francis David Byrne who has a recorded death in 1927 to be the same person. One the main problems I had in my research on him was simply finding out whether the many records of his name that I found referred to the same person, or whether there might be more than one Francis David Byrne. I feel fairly confident now though that I can claim his lifespan to have been 1861-1927. I guess the uncertain date in the census would explain why he advertised himself as being about 35 in 1899. I suppose it must have been common at the time to not know one's exact year of birth. In other words, PD for all.
@DiapDealer: He actually matriculated college in 1878, and as the records that I found just now show, he would have been 17 at the time.
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