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See also: English poet, writer of See also: hymns and inventor of a See also: system of shorthand, was See also: born at Kersal Cell, near Manchester, on the 29th of See also: February 1692, the younger son of a prosperous See also: merchant
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He was educated at Merchant Taylors school, and at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, of which he became a See also: fellow in 1714
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His first poem, " See also: Colin to See also: Phoebe," a pastoral, appeared in the Spectator, No
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603
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The heroine is said to have been Dr Bentley's daughter, See also: Joanna, the See also: mother of See also: Richard See also: Cumberland, the dramatist
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After leaving the university See also: Byrom went abroad, ostensibly to study See also: medicine, but he never practised and possibly his errand was really See also: political, for he was an adherent of the Pretender
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He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1724
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On his return to See also: London he married his See also: cousin in' 721, and to support himself taught a new method of shorthand of his own invention, till he succeeded (1740) to his See also: father's estate on the See also: death of his elder See also: brother
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His See also: diary gives interesting portraits and letters of the many See also: great men of his See also: time whom he knew intimately
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He died on the 26th of See also: September 1763
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A collection of his poems was published in 1773, and he is included in See also: Alexander
See also: Chalmers's English Poets
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His system of shorthand was not published until after his death, when it was printed as The Universal English Shorthand; or the way of writing English in the most easy, concise, See also: regular and beautiful manner, applicable to any other language, but particularly adjusted to our own (Manchester, 1767)
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The Private Journal andSee also: Literary Remains of See also: John Byrom, related by Richard
See also: Parkinson, D.D., was published by the Chetham Society (1854-1857)
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