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HENRY JAMES PYE (1745-1813)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:JAMES See also:PYE (1745-1813)  , See also:English poet See also:laureate, was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:February 1745, and educated at Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford . His See also:father, a See also:Berkshire See also:land-owner, died in 1766, leaving him a See also:legacy of See also:debt amounting to £5o,000, and the burning of his See also:home at See also:Great See also:Faringdon further increased his difficulties . In 1784 he was elected M.P. for Berkshire . He was obliged to sell the paternal See also:estate, and, retiring from See also:Parliament in 1790, became a See also:police See also:magistrate for See also:Westminster . Although he had no command of See also:language and was destitute of poetic feeling, his ambition was to obtain recognition as a poet, and he publi§hed many volumes of See also:verse . Of all he wrote his See also:prose See also:Summary of the Duties of a See also:Justice of the See also:Peace out of Sessions (1808) is most worthy of See also:record . He was made poet laureate in 1790, perhaps as a See also:reward for his faithful support of See also:Pitt in the See also:House of See also:Commons . The See also:appointment was looked on as ridiculous, and his birthday odes were a continual source of contempt . His most elaborate poem was an epic, See also:Alfred ("Sol) . He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed See also:salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of See also:Canary See also:wine . He died at Pinner, See also:Middlesex, on the If th of See also:August 1813 .

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