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PYE, HENRY JAMES (1745-1813)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 677 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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