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EDWARD CAPERN (1819-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD CAPERN (1819-1894)  ,
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English poet, was born at
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Tiverton, Devonshire, on the 21st of
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January 1819 . From an early age he worked in a lace factory, but owing to failing eyesight he had to abandon this occupation in 1847 and he was in dire
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distress until he secured an appointment to be " the Rural Postman of
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Bideford," by which name he is usually known . He occupied his leisure in writing occasional
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poetry which struck the popular fancy . Collected in a
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volume and published by subscription in 1856, it received the warm praise of the reviews and many distinguished
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people . Poems, by
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Edward Capern, was followed by
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Ballads and Songs (1858), The Devonshire Melodist (a collection of the author's songs, some of them to his own
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music) and Wayside Warbles (1865), and resulted in a
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civil list pension being granted him by Lord Palmerston . He died on the 5th of
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June 1894 .

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