Lemuel Abbott (ca. 1730 – April 1776) was an

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clergyman and poet.

Life

Little is known of his background, but he was a curate in

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, and vicar of Thornton. He is known to posterity primarily for his collection of poems titled ''Poems on Various Subjects, whereto is Prefixed a Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse'', published in 1765. Abbott and his wife Mary were probably the parents of the artist

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References

*Richard Allen (1866) ''Allen's Illustrated Hand-Book and Guide to all the Places of Interest in Nottingham and its Environs'', Richard Allen & Son, p. 79 *

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, "Abbott, Lemuel (d. 1776)", rev. Michael Bevan, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20, accessed 21 March 2007) 1730s births 1776 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests People from the Borough of Rugby English male poets {{England-poet-stub