James Beresford (28 May 1764 – 29 September 1840) was a writer and clergyman. He was born in Upham in

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

and educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and became a fellow of

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

. He made translations and wrote religious books, but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work, ''

The Miseries of Human Life ''The Miseries of Human Life'' was written by James Beresford (writer), James Beresford (1764–1840) and published in 1806, first as a single volume and then as an expanded two-volume edition later that year. Illustrated by George Cruikshank, it ...

'', considered to be a "minor classic in the genre". Beresford also wrote under the pseudonyms An Aspirant, Ignato Secudno, Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. He was rector of

Kibworth Kibworth is an area of the Harborough District, Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, that contains two civil parishes in England, civil parishes: the villages of Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt . At the 2011 census, Kibwor ...

from 1812 until his death.

Bibliography

This list of works is taken from Beresford's obituary, published in the May 1841 edition of ''

The 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'' ...

''. * ''The Æneid of Virgil'' (1794) * ''The Song of the Sun'' (1805) * ''The Battle of Trafalgar'' (1805) * ''

'' (1806) * ''A Discourse on Cruelty to the Brute Creation'' (1809) * ''Bibliosophia, or Book-Wisdom'' (1810) * ''A Thanksgiving Sermon'' (1814) * ''Does Faith Insure Good Works?'' (1814) * ''A Letter to Philo, in Answer to his Objections Against an Essay on Faith and Works'' (1815) * ''An Examination of the Doctrines of Calvin'' (1818) * ''On the Objects and Services of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Diocesan and District Committees'' (1819) * ''The Cross and the Crescent, an Heroic Metrical Romance'' (1824) * ''Stand! An Earnest Address to the Friends of an Embodied Church in England and Ireland'' (1835)

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1764 births 1840 deaths British satirists People from the City of Winchester Fellows of Merton College, Oxford People educated at Charterhouse School People from Kibworth {{UK-writer-stub