John Glanvill (1664?–1735) was an English barrister, known as a poet and translator.

Life

Born at

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, about 1664, he was the son of Julius Glanvil of

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, by his wife, Anne Bagnall of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London; Sir John Glanville was his grandfather. He became a commoner of

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, in 1678, was elected scholar 10 June 1680, and graduate B.A. 24 October 1682, M.A. 24 November 1685. In 1683 Glanvill stood for a fellowship at

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, but

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was elected. Glanvill was affronted, and, according to Thomas Hearne, was expelled by his college. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was

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. Glanvill died a wealthy bachelor on 12 June 1735, aged 71, at Catchfrench, in St. Germans, Cornwall, an estate he had purchased in 1726.

Works

Glanvill was the author of: * ''Some Odes of Horace imitated with Relation to His Majesty and the Times'', London, 1690. * ''Poem … lamenting the Death of her late Sacred Majesty of the Small-pox'', London, 1695. * ''A Panegyrick to the King''

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* ''The Happy Pair'', a new song non. London 706? other editions 1710? 1750?. * ''Poems, consisting of originals and translations'', London, 1725. * ''Two Letters to Francis Gregor'', dated Catchfrench, August 1730 and October 1730, printed in

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's preface to

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's ''De Laudibus legum Angliæ'', 1737, pp. xxvii–xxxii. He also translated from the Latin

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's ''Agamemnon'', act i., which, with ''A Song'', was in ''Miscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands'', London, 1685. In the ''Annual Miscellany'' for 1694, pt. iv. of ''Miscellany Poems'', London, 1694, he had translations from Seneca and

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. He also translated Fontenelle's '' A Plurality of Worlds'', London, 1688; other editions, London, 1695; London, 1702. Some his poems were reprinted in vol. iv. of John Nichols's ''Collection''.

Notes

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