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LOFFT, CAPEL (1751-1824)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOFFT, See also:CAPEL (1751-1824) , See also:English See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:November 1751. He was educated at See also:Eton, and Peterhouse, See also:Cambridge, which he See also:left to become a member of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn. He was called to the See also:bar in 1775, and left by his See also:father's and See also:uncle's deaths with a See also:hand-some See also:property and the See also:family estates. He was a prolific writer on a variety of topics, and a vigorous contentious See also:advocate of See also:parliamentary and other reforms, and carried on a voluminous See also:correspondence with all the See also:literary men of his See also:time. He became the See also:patron of See also:Robert See also:Bloomfield, the author of The See also:Farmer's Boy, and secured for him the very successful publication of that See also:work. See also:Byron, in a See also:note to his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, ridiculed Lofft as " the See also:Maecenas of See also:shoe-makers and See also:preface-writer See also:general to distressed versemen; a See also:kind of gratis accoucheur to those who wish to be delivered of See also:rhyme, but do not know how to bring forth." He died at Montcalieri, near See also:Turin, on the 26th of May 1824. His See also:fourth son Capel Lofft, the younger (18o6-1873), also a writer on various topics, inherited his father's liberal ideas and principles, and carried them in youth to greater extremes. In his old See also:age he abandoned these theories, which had brought him into the See also:company of some of the leading See also:political See also:agitators of the See also:day. He died in See also:America, where he had a See also:Virginia See also:estate.

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