Thomas Eastoe Abbott (23 November 1786 – 18 February 1854) was an
English poet.
Life
Abbott was born and baptised in
East Dereham
Dereham (), also known as East Dereham, is a town and civil parish in the Breckland District of the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A47 road, about 15 miles (25 km) west of the city of Norwich and 25 miles (40&nb ...
,
Norfolk, the son of John Abbott and Susannah Eastoe, who married in East Dereham on 13 November 1777.
He worked for the
Inland Revenue for many years,
and was a warden of the Royal Free Grammar School in Darlington.
[ His poems were described by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe as "written with great simplicity of language, full of genuine patriotism and Christianity; some of them much resembling in style that of Wordsworth."][
Abbott died in Darlington in 1854.
]
Works
* ''Peace'', a lyric poem dedicated to the mayor of Hull (London, 1814).
* ''Resignation'', a poem on the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales Princess Charlotte of Wales may refer to:
* Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817), the only child of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom
** Princess Charlotte of Wales (1812 EIC ship), a ship named after the pri ...
(Hull, 1817).
* ''The Triumph of Christianity, A Missionary Poem; Commerce; and other Poems'', dedicated to William Wilberforce (London, 1819).
* ''The Soldier's Friend'', a poem to the memory of the Duke of York
Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of English (later British) monarchs. The equivalent title in the Scottish peerage was Du ...
(London, 1828).
* ''Lines on Education and Religion'' (Darlington, 1839).[
]
References
External source
* East Dereham parish register transcripts (www.FreeREG.org.uk)
* Thompson Cooper,
Abbott, Thomas Eastoe
', Rev. Megan A. Stephan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 21 March 2007)
1786 births
1854 deaths
People from Dereham
English male poets
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