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Henry Headley
Henry Headley (1765–1788) was an English poet and critic. Life Baptised at Irstead, Norfolk, 27 April 1765, he was only son of Henry Headley, rector of that parish to 1768, and then vicar of North Walsham to his death on 6 October 1785, at the age of 57; his mother, Mary Anne Barchard, married (on 21 September 1789), after her first husband's death, Anthony Taylor of Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, and died 13 October 1818, at age 85. His sister Elizabeth married Woodbine Parish (1768–1848), and was mother of Sir Woodbine Parish. Headley was one of Samuel Parr's pupils at Colchester grammar school, and idle; he went with Parr to Norwich, given another chance. On 14 January 1782 he was admitted a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, under the tuition of the Rev. Charles Jesse, and was shortly elected scholar. William Lisle Bowles, the poet, and William Benwell, a man of literary taste, were also scholars, and became his friends. Thomas Warton was then a fellow of the college, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irstead
Irstead is a village in the English county of Norfolk, England. The village is situated at Irstead Shoals, on the River Ant just south of Barton Broad, the second largest of the Norfolk Broads. The village forms part of the civil parish of Barton Turf and the district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ... of North Norfolk.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The villages name means 'Mud place'. Several of the village's buildings are reed-thatched, including in particular the very attractive St Michael's Church (right). References http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Irstead External links .Information from Genuki Norfolkon Irstead. Villages in Norfolk North Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kett
Henry Kett (12 February 1761 – 30 June 1825) was a versatile English clergyman, academic and writer. Life Son of Benjamin and Mary Kett, he was born in the parish of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich, 12 February 1761. His father was a cordwainer and freeman of Norwich, and he himself was admitted to the freedom of the city on 28 August 1784. He was educated at Norwich School by the Rev. William Lemon, and matriculated as commoner inf. ord. of Trinity College, Oxford, on 18 March 1777, graduating B.A. 1780, M.A. 1783, B.D. 1793.Harries et al. (1991), p. 222 He was elected Blount exhibitioner 26 May 1777, scholar 15 June 1778, and fellow 5 June 1784, retaining his fellowship until 1824. His name occurs as the tutor of various undergraduates from 1784 to 1809, but the period during which he acted as college tutor probably ranged from 1799 to 1808. In 1789, Kett visited France and saw the early days of the French Revolution. He was Bampton lecturer in 1790, and in the same year playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Male Poets
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1788 Deaths
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1765 Births
Events January–March * January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna. * January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ruler of the Bengali people with the support and protection of the British East India Company, abdicates in favor of his 18-year-old son, Najmuddin Ali Khan. * February 8 – **Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia, issues a decree abolishing the historic punishments against unmarried women in Germany for "sex crimes", particularly the ''Hurenstrafen'' (literally "whore shaming") practices of public humiliation. **Isaac Barré, a member of the British House of Commons for Wycombe and a veteran of the French and Indian War in the British American colonies, coins the term "Sons of Liberty" in a rebuttal to Charles Townshend's derisive description of the American colonists during the introduction of the proposed Stamp Act. MP Barré n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matlock, Derbyshire
Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England. It is situated in the south-eastern part of the Peak District, with the National Park directly to the west. The town is twinned with the French town of Eaubonne. The former spa resort of Matlock Bath lies immediately south of the town on the A6. The civil parish of Matlock Town had a population in the 2011 UK census of 9,543. Matlock is nine miles (14 km) south-west of Chesterfield and in easy reach of the cities of Derby (19 miles), Sheffield (20 miles) and Nottingham (29 miles); the Greater Manchester conurbation is 30 miles away. Matlock is within the Derbyshire Dales district, which also includes the towns of Bakewell and Ashbourne, as well as Wirksworth. The headquarters of Derbyshire County Council are in the town. History The name Matlock derives from the Old English ''mæthel'' (or ''mæðel''), meaning assembly or speech, and ''āc'', meaning oak tree; thus Matlock means 'moot-oak', an oak tree where meetings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beloe
William Beloe (1756 – April 11, 1817) was an English divine and miscellaneous writer. Biography Beloe was born at Norwich the son of a tradesman, and received a liberal education. After a day school in Norwich he was schooled under the Rev. Matthew Raine, who taught at Hartforth; and subsequently under Samuel Parr, whom he describes as "severe, wayward, and irregular". His departure from Parr's school at Stanmore was hastened by quarrels with his schoolfellows, and at Benet College, Cambridge he got into trouble by writing epigrams. Parr, on becoming headmaster of Norwich grammar school, offered him the assistant mastership. Beloe held this post for three years, but seemingly unhappily. During his time at Norwich Beloe married, and then went to London, where he worked for publishers. In 1793 he established, with Robert Nares, the ''British Critic'', the first forty-two volumes of which were partly edited by him. He also, according to his biographer in the ''Gentleman's Magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentleman's Magazine
''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. History The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Contributions to the magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Monro (writer)
Thomas Monro (1764–1815) was an English cleric and writer. Life Son of the Rev. Thomas Monro of Wargrave, Berkshire, and nephew of Alexander Monro primus, he was born 9 October 1764, and was educated at Colchester free school and Norwich Grammar School under Samuel Parr. On 11 July 1782 he matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and in 1783 he was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, which he resigned on his marriage, 7 June 1797. He graduated B.A. in 1787, and M.A. in 1791. Monro was curate of Selborne, Hampshire, from 1798 until 1800, when he was presented by Lord Maynard to the rectory of Little Easton, Essex, where he died on 25 September 1815. Works Monro's works were: * ''Olla Podrida, a Periodical Work'', comprising forty-eight weekly numbers, Oxford, 1787; 2nd edit. London, 1788; reprinted in Robert Lynam's edition of the ''British Essayists'', vol. xxviii. (London, 1827). Monro set it up and ran it with the help of Oxford men: George Horne, Henry Headley, Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Park
Thomas Park (1759–1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer, also known as a literary editor. Life He was the son of parents who lived at East Acton, Middlesex. When ten years old he was sent to a grammar school at Heighington, County Durham, and remained there for more than five years. He was brought up as an engraver, and produced mezzotint portraits, including John Thomas, bishop of Rochester, and Miss Penelope Boothby, after Sir Joshua Reynolds; Mrs. Jordan as the Comic Muse, after John Hoppner; and a Magdalen after Ubaldo Gandolfi. In 1797 he abandoned this career, and devoted himself to literature and the study of antiquities. In London he lived in turn in Piccadilly; Marylebone High Street, where Richard Heber used to drink tea two or three times a week; Durweston Street, Portman Square; and Hampstead, where he was involved with local charities. On 11 March 1802 he was admitted as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; but he resigned in 1815 for financial re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Alfred Davenport
Richard Alfred Davenport (1777–1852) was an English miscellaneous writer. Life Davenport was born in Lambeth on 18 January 1777, and started work as a writer in London at an early age. In the late 1790s he knew John Britton and Peter Lionel Courtier through a debating society, the "School of Eloquence". Davenport wrote large portions of the history, biography, geography, and criticism in Rivington's ''Annual Register'' for several years (1792 to 1797, according to John Britton). He edited, with lives, a number of the British poets for the Chiswick Press edition in 100 volumes (1822); the biographies were supplied from the existing ones Samuel Johnson, with Davenport, Samuel Weller Singer, and some others, writing the rest. Later he did much work for Thomas Tegg. For the last 11 years of his life Davenport lived at Brunswick Cottage, Park Street, Camberwell, a freehold house of which he was the owner. Here he lived and working alone, drinking large quantities of laudanum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anderson (editor And Biographer)
Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic. Son of David Anderson, W.S., he was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1778. He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh. For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of ''The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical'' (14 vols. 8vo, Edin., 1792–1807). His other publications were: *''The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings'' (Edin., 1796) *''Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works'' (Edin., 1815) *''The Works of John Moore, M.D., w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
