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TYRWHITT, THOMAS (1730–1786)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TYRWHITT, See also:THOMAS (1730–1786) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:March 1730, where he died on the 15th of See also:August 1786. He. was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford (See also:fellow of Merton, 1755). In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at See also:war, in 1762 clerk of the See also:House of See also:Commons. In 1768 he resigned his See also:post, and spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life in learned retirement. In 1784 he was elected a trustee of the See also:British Museum, to which he bequeathed a portion of his valuable library. His See also:principal classical See also:works are: Fragmenta Plutarchi II. inedita (1773), from a Harleian MS.; Dissertatio de Babrio (1776), containing some fables of See also:Aesop, hitherto unedited, from a Bodleian MS.; the pseudo-Orphic De lapidibus (1781), which he assigned to the See also:age of See also:Constantius; Conjecturae in Strabonem (1783); See also:Isaeus De Meneclis hereditate (1785) ; See also:Aristotle's Poetica, his most important See also:work, published after his See also:death under the superintendence of Dr See also:Burgess, See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, in 1194. See also:Special mention is due of his See also:editions of See also:Chaucer's See also:Canterbury Tales (1775–1778) ; and of Poems, supposed to have been written at See also:Bristol by Thomas See also:Rowley and others in the Fifteenth See also:Century (1777-1778), with an appendix to rove that the poems were all the work of See also:Chatterton. In 1782 he published a Vindication of the Appendix in reply to the arguments of those who maintained the genuineness of the poems. While clerk of the House of Commons he edited Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons, 1620-1621 from the See also:original MS. in the library of Queen's College, Oxford, and See also:Henry Elsynge's (1598-1654) The Manner of holding Parliaments in See also:England.

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