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NATHAN DRAKE (1766-1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 474 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRAKE (1766-1836)  , See also:English essayist and physician, son of Nathan See also:Drake, an artist, was See also:born at See also:York in 1766 . He was apprenticed to a See also:doctor in York in 1779, and in 1786 proceeded to See also:Edinburgh University, where he took his degree as M.D. in 1789 . In 1790 he set up as a See also:general practitioner at See also:Sudbury, See also:Suffolk, where he found an intimate friend in Dr See also:Mason See also:Good (d . 1827) . In 1792 he removed to See also:Hadleigh, Suffolk, where he died in 1836 . His See also:works include several volumes of See also:literary essays, and some papers contributed to medical See also:periodicals; but his most important See also:production was See also:Shakespeare and his Times, including the See also:Biography of the Poet, of the See also:Manners, Customs and Amusements, Superstitions, See also:Poetry and Elegant Literature of his See also:Age (2 vols., 1817) . The See also:title sufficiently indicates the See also:scope of this ample See also:work, which has the merit, says G . G .

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