Alexander Crowcher Schomberg (1756–1792) was an English poet and writer on

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Life

The son of

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, Norfolk, he was born there on 6 July 1756. From Southampton School he was admitted a scholar of

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in 1770. He matriculated at

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, and on 9 May 1775, was elected a demy of

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in 1776. He graduated B.A. on 20 January 1779, and commenced M.A. on 9 November 1781. He became a probationer fellow of Magdalen College in 1782, and senior dean of arts in 1791. In later life Schomberg studied

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, falling ill. The young

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attended him at

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. He died there on 6 April 1792, and was buried in

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. He was the earliest patron of

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the composer.

Works

Schomberg's works were: * ''Bagley; a descriptive Poem; with the Annotations of Scriblerus Secundus: To which are prefixed, by the same, Prolegomena on the Poetry of the present age'',’ Oxford, 1777. The authorship has also been ascribed to Thomas Burgess.Halkett and Laing, ''Dictionary of Anonymous Literature'', i. 210. * ''Ode on the present state of English Poetry'' by "Cornelius Scriblerus Nothus", with "a translation of a fragment of Simonides", Greek and English, Oxford, 1779. * ''An historical and chronological View of Roman Law. With Notes and Illustrations'', Oxford, 1785; 2nd edit. Oxford, 1857; translated into French by A. M. H. Boulard, 2nd edit. Paris, 1808. * ''A Treatise on the Maritime Laws of Rhodes'', Oxford, 1786. * ''Historical and Political Remarks on the Tariff of the Commercial Treaty with France'', 1787. * ''Present State of Trade and Manufactures in France'' (partly printed, unpublished). At age 13 Schomberg wrote a tragedy in collaboration with Herbert Croft. He contributed to the volumes of Anna Miller, and to the periodical ''Olla Podrida'', edited by Thomas Monro (1788).

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Schomberg, Alexander Crowcher 1756 births 1792 deaths English poets English legal writers Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford