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of its Churches, St. Trinity, In 1742 he was admitted of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, between which year and 1745, when 

 ho became B. A. he wrote several minor poems. He after- 

 wards removed to Pembroke Hall of which he was unexpect- 

 edly nominated Fellow in 1747. He continued writing poetry 

 and in 1751 published his Tragedy of "Elfrida" after the model 

 of the old Greek writers. In 1754 he entered the church, be- 

 coming Rector of Aston in Yorkshire, and one of the king's 

 chaplains, for both of which appointments he was indebted to 

 Lord Holderness. In 1759 he published another Tragedy 

 "Caractacus" on the same plan as his first, but both are more 

 fitted for the Library than for the stage. He continued to 

 Avrite Poetry, and occasionally to preach before the King, but 

 both his Verses and Sermons had too much of Whiggism in 

 them. In 17C5 he married Mary, daughter of W. Sherman 

 Esq. of Kingston upon Hull, but she died in two years after 

 their union. He continued to write until within a very short 

 period of his death, which was occasioned by a hurt on his 

 shin, which rapidly mortified and caused his dissolution on the 

 7th of April, 1797, at Aston. 



There are two portraits of him. One, an etching by C. 

 Carter, after a painting in 1771 by L: Vaslet, 4to. The other 

 a half length by W. Doughty, 1779, after a painting by Sir J. 

 Reynold's. 



In 1772 appeared the first Book of his " English Garden," 

 and the other three followed seperately in 1777, 1779, and 

 1782. London. 4to, Another edition was published in 

 1785. London. 8vo. with Notes and a Commentary by W. 

 Burgh, L. L. D. 



The blank verse of this poem we need not here particularly 

 criticize, it is harmonious, but its delicacy vt^rges often to weak- 

 ness." The three first books were received with great applause 



