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FAWKES, FRANCIS (1720-1777) , English poet and divine, was born at Warn1sworth, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, wherehis father was rector , and was baptized on the 4th of April 1720. After studying at Jesus College, Cambridge , where he graduated M.A. in 1745, he took holy orders, and was successively curate of Bramham, curate of Croydon, vicar
Orpington
rector of Hayes, and finally was made one of the chaplains to the princess of Wales. His first publication is said to have been Bramham Park, a Poem, in 1745; a volume of poems and translations appeared in 1761; and Partridge
Shooting
minor Greek poetsAnacreon, Sappho, Bion
Musaeus
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