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FAWKES, FRANCIS (1720-1777)

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FAWKES, See also:FRANCIS (1720-1777) , See also:English poet and divine, was See also:born at Warn1sworth, near See also:Doncaster, See also:Yorkshire, wherehis See also:father was See also:rector, and was baptized on the 4th of See also:April 1720. After studying at Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1745, he took See also:holy orders, and was successively See also:curate of Bramham, curate of See also:Croydon, See also:vicar of See also:Orpington, and rector of See also:Hayes, and finally was made one of the chaplains to the princess of See also:Wales. His first publication is said to have been Bramham See also:Park, a Poem, in 1745; a See also:volume of poems and See also:translations appeared in 1761; and See also:Partridge See also:Shooting, an See also:eclogue, in 1764. His translations of the See also:minor See also:Greek poets—Anacreon, See also:Sappho, See also:Bion and See also:Moschus, See also:Musaeus, See also:Theocritus and Apollonius—acquired for him considerable fame, but they are less likely to be remembered than his See also:fine See also:song, " Dear Tom, this See also:brown See also:jug, that now foams with mild See also:ale." Fawkes died on the 26th of See also:August 1777.

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