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FENTON, ELIJAH (1683-1730) , English poet, was born at Shelton near Newcastle-under-Lyme, of an old Staffordshire family, on the 25th of May 1683. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge , in 1704, but was prevented by religious scruples from taking orders. He accompanied the earl
Orrery to Flanders as private secretary, and on returning to England became assistant in a school at Headley, Surrey, being soon afterwards appointed master of the free grammar school at Sevenoaks in Kent. In 1710 he resigned his appointment in the expectation of a place from Lord Bolingbroke, but was disappointed. He then became tutor to Lord Broghill, son of his patron Orrery . Fenton is remembered as the coadjutor of Alexander Pope
translation
East
Hampstead
and his epitaph was written by Pope
Fenton also published Oxford
Cambridge Miscellany Poems (1707) ; Miscellaneous Poems (1717) ; Mariamne, a tragedy (1723) ; an edition (1725) of Milton's poems, and one of Waller (1729) with elaborate notes. See W. W. Lloyd
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