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CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

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CAMBRIDGE, See also:RICHARD See also:OWEN (1717-1802) , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:February 1717. He was educated at See also:Eton and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up See also:residence at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1737. Four years later he married, and went to live at his See also:country seat of Whitminster, See also:Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to See also:Twickenham, where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. See also:Horace See also:Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the See also:character of See also:news-monger. He died at Twickenham on the 17th of See also:September 18o2. His See also:chief See also:work is the Scribleriad (1751), a See also:mock epic poem, the See also:hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of See also:Pope, See also:Arbuthnot and See also:Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Cervantes as his See also:master. The See also:satire shows considerable learning, and was eagerly read by See also:literary See also:people; but it never became popular, and the allusions, always obscure, have little See also:interest for the See also:present-See also:day reader. He made a valuable contribution to See also:history in his See also:Account of the See also:War in See also:India . . . on the See also:Coast of Coromandel from the See also:year 1750 to 1760 .

. . (1761). He had intended to write a history of the rise and progress of See also:

British See also:power in India, but this enterprise went no further than the work just named, as he found that See also:Robert See also:Orme, who had promised him the use of his papers, contemplated the See also:execution of a similar See also:plan. The See also:Works of Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., including several Pieces never before published, with an Account of his See also:Life and Character by his Son, See also:George Owen Cambridge (1803), includes, besides the Scribleriad, some narrative and satirical poems, and about twenty papers originally published in See also:Edward See also:Moore's See also:paper called The See also:World. His poems are included in A. See also:Chalmers's English Poets (1816).

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