Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow (1781–1829), was the 2nd

Baron Thurlow Baron Thurlow, of Thurlow in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created on 11 June 1792 for the lawyer and politician Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, with remainder to his younger brothers and the heir ...

, known also as a poet. In 1814 he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Hovell, in commemoration of his ancestor Sir Richard Hovell.

Life

He was the eldest son of Thomas Thurlow, the

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, and Anne, daughter of William Bere of

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, Hampshire; and nephew of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Born in the

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, on 10 June 1781, he was educated at

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and

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, where he matriculated on 17 May 1798, and was created M.A. on 16 July 1801. On the death of his uncle the 1st Baron, he succeeded to the barony of Thurlow, of Thurlow in

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, on 12 September 1806; but took his seat in the

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only in 29 November 1810. In commemoration of the descent of his grandmother from Richard Hovell, esquire of the body to Henry V, he prefixed to Thurlow the additional surname Hovell by royal licence, dated 8 July 1814. Thurlow had been appointed on 30 December 1785 one of the principal registrars of the

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, and in 1788 clerk of the custodies of idiots and lunatics. To those offices were added those of clerk of the presentations in the petty bag office (1796), patentee of commissions in bankruptcy (1803), and clerk of the Hanaper (1821). He retained them all, until his death at Brighton on 4 June 1829.

Works

Thurlow edited for private circulation, London, 1810,

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's '' Defence of Poesy''; with it were some original

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s. They were reprinted, with ''Hermilda'', in the manner of Tasso, as ''Verses on several Occasions'', London, 1812; second enlarged edition entitled ''Poems on several Occasions'', 1813. Other works were: * ''Ariadne: a poem in three parts'', ''Carmen Britannicum'', in honour of

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, and ''The Doge's Daughter: a poem'', with translations from

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and

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, all published at London in 1814; * ''Select Poems'', privately printed at Chiswick in 1821; and * ''Angelica, or the Rape of Proteus'', a continuation of '' The Tempest'' by Shakespeare, 1822. He contributed to the ''

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'', in which appeared (April 1813) his ''Lines on Rogers's Epistle to a Friend'', parodied by

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criticised his affectation in 1814.

Family

Thurlow married, at

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on 13 November 1813, the actress

Mary Catherine Bolton Mary Catherine Bolton, stage name Polly Bolton, later known by her married name of Lady Thurlow (1790/91–1830), was an English actress, remembered particularly for playing Ophelia. Life Bolton was the daughter of James Richard Bolton, an attorn ...

(died 1830), eldest daughter of James Richard Bolton, an attorney. They had three sons, of whom Edward Thomas succeeded his father in the title.

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