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MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER (1810--1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN See also:FARQUHAR See also:TUPPER (1810--1889)  , See also:English writer, the author of Proverbial See also:Philosophy, was See also:born in See also:London on the 17th of See also:July 181o . He was the son of See also:Martin See also:Tupper, a See also:doctor, who came of an old Huguenot See also:family . He was educated at See also:Charterhouse and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he gained a See also:prize for a theological See also:essay, See also:Gladstone being second to him . He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, but never practised . He began a See also:long career of authorship in 1832 with Sacra Poesis, and in 1838 he published Geraldine, and other Poems, and for fifty years was fertile in producing both See also:verse and See also:prose; but his name is indissolubly connected with his long See also:series of didactic moralisings in See also:blank verse, the Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1867), which for about twenty-five years enjoyed an extraordinary popularity that has ever since been the cause of persistent See also:satire . The first See also:part was, however, a See also:comparative failure, and N . P . See also:Willis, the See also:American author, took it to be a forgotten See also:work of the 17th See also:century . The See also:commonplace See also:character of Tupper's reflections is indubitable, and his blank verse is only prose cut up into suitable lengths; but the Proverbial Philosophy was full of a perfectly genuine moral and religious feeling, and contained many See also:apt and striking expressions . By these qualities it appealed to a large and uncritical See also:section of the public . A genial, warm-hearted See also:man, Tupper's humane instincts prompted him to espouse many reforming movements; he was an See also:early supporter of the Volunteer See also:movement, and did much to promote See also:good relations with See also:America . He was also a See also:mechanical inventor in a small way .

In 1886 he published My See also:

Life as an Author; and on the 29th of See also:November 1889 he died at See also:Albury, See also:Surrey .

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