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THOMAS WARTON (c. 1688-1745)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS WARTON (c. 1688-1745)  ,
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English author, professor of
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poetry at Oxford, son of Anthony Warton, was born at
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Godalming about 1688 . He was educated at Hart Hall and Magdalen College, Oxford . He was satirized for his incompetence as professor of poetry by Nicholas Amhurst in Terrae filius as " squinting Tom of Maudlin." He was vicar of
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Basingstoke, Hampshire, and master of the grammar-school of the
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town, where he had among his pupils Gilbert White, the naturalist . He received further preferments in the church, and died at Basingstoke on the loth of September 1745 . He published nothing during his lifetime, but after his
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death his son Joseph published some of his poetry under the title of Poems on Several Occasions (1748) .

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