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See also:ELIJAH See also:FENTON (1683-1730)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Shelton near See also:Newcastle-under-Lyme, of an old See also:Staffordshire See also:family, on the 25th of May 1683
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He graduated from Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1704, but was prevented by religious scruples from taking orders
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He accompanied the See also:earl of See also:Orrery to See also:Flanders as private secretary, and on returning to See also:England became assistant in a school at Headley, See also:Surrey, being soon afterwards appointed See also:master of the See also:free See also:grammar school at See also:Sevenoaks in See also:Kent
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In 1710 he resigned his See also:appointment in the expectation of a See also:place from See also:Lord See also:Bolingbroke, but was disappointed
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He then became See also:tutor to Lord Broghill, son of his See also:patron Orrery
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See also:Fenton is remembered as the coadjutor of See also: See also:Lloyd, See also:Elijah Fenton, his See also:Poetry and See also:Friends (1894) . |
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