See also:WINTHROP MACKWORTH See also:PRAED (1802–1839)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:London on the 26th of See also:July 1802
.
The old See also:family name was Mackworth, the additional name of See also:Praed being derived from the See also:marriage of the poet's See also:great See also:grand-See also:father with a Cornish heiress
.
His father, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Mackworth Praed, was a See also:serjeant-at-See also:law
.
His See also:mother belonged to the English See also:branch of the New See also:England family of See also:Winthrop
.
In 1814 Praed was sent to See also:Eton See also:College
.
He there founded a See also:manuscript periodical called A pis matina
.
This was succeeded in See also:October 182o by the Etonian, a See also:paper projected and
edited by Praed and See also:Walter See also:Blount, which appeared every See also:month until July 1821, when the See also:chief editor, who signed his contributions " Peregrine See also:Courtenay," See also:left Eton, and the paper died
.
See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Nelson See also:Coleridge, William See also:Sidney See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker, and See also:John See also:Moultrie were the three best known of his coadjutors in this periodical, which was published by See also:Charles See also:Knight, and of which many interesting particulars are given in Knight's Autobiography and in See also:Maxwell See also:Lyte's Eton College
.
Before Praed left school he succeeded in establishing over a See also:shop at Eton a " boys' library," the books of which are now amalgamated in the School Library
.
His career at See also:Cambridge, where he matriculated at Trinity College, October 1821, was marked by exceptional brilliancy
.
He gained the See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne See also:medal for See also:Greek See also:verse four times, and twice the See also:chancellor's medal for English verse
.
He was bracketed third in the classical tripos in 1825, won a fellowship at his college in 1827, and three years later carried off the Seatonian See also:prize
.
At the See also:Union his speeches were only rivalled by those of See also:Macaulay and of Charles See also:Austin (1799—1874), who subsequently made a great reputation at the See also:parliamentary See also:bar
.
The See also:character of Praed during his university See also:life is described by Bulwer See also:Lytton in the first See also:volume of his Life
.
He began to study law, and in 1829 was called to the bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple
.
He went the See also:Norfolk See also:circuit, where his prospects of See also:advancement were See also:bright, but the See also:bias of his feelings inclined him towards politics, and after a See also:year or two he devoted himself entirely to See also:political life
.
Whilst at See also:Cam-See also:bridge he leaned to Whiggism, and even to the autumn of 1829 his feelings were See also:bent towards the same See also:side, but during the agitation for parliamentary reform his opinions changed, and when he was returned to See also:parliament for St Germans (Dec
.
17, 1830) his See also:election was due to the Tory party
.
He sat for that See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough until See also:December 1832, and on its extinction contested the borough of St Ives, within the limits of which the Cornish estates of the Praeds were situated
.
The squibs which he wrote on this occasion were collected in a volume printed at See also:Penzance in 1833 and entitled Trash, dedicated without respect to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Halse, Esq., M.P., his successful competitor
.
Praed sat for Great See also:Yarmouth from 1835 to 1837, and was secretary to the See also:Board of See also:Control during See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel's See also:short See also:administration
.
He sat for See also:Aylesbury from 1837 until his See also:death
.
During the progress of the Reform See also:Bill he advocated the creation of three-cornered constituencies, in which each voter should have the See also:power of giving two votes only, and maintained that freeholds within boroughs should confer votes for the boroughs and not for the See also:county
.
Neither of these suggestions was then adopted, but the former ultimately formed See also:part of the Reform Bill of 1866
.
He married in 1835 See also:Helen Bogle
.
He died of See also:consumption at See also:Chester Square, London, on the 15th of July 1839
.
Praed's lighter See also:poetry was the perfection of ease
.
Mr Austin See also:Dobson has justly praised his " sparkling wit, the clearness and finish of his See also:style, and the flexibility and unflagging vivacity of his See also:rhythm " (See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward's English Poets)
.
It abounded in happy allusions to the characters and follies of the See also:day
.
In his humorous effusions he found numerous imitators
.
His poems were first edited by R
.
W
.
See also:Griswold (New See also:York, 1844) ; another See also:American edition, by W
.
A
.
Whitmore, appeared in 1859; an authorized edition with a memoir by See also:Derwent Coleridge appeared in 1864: The Political and Occasional Poems of W
.
M
.
Praed (1888), edited with notes by his See also:nephew, Sir See also:George See also:Young, included many pieces collected from various See also:newspapers and See also:periodicals
.
Sir George Young separated from his See also:work some poems, the work of his friend See also:Edward See also:Marlborough See also:Fitzgerald, generally confused with his
.
Praed's essays, contributed to various magazines, were published in See also:Morley's Universal Library in 1887
.
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