Name Lemuel Abbott | Role Painter | |
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Died December 5, 1802, London, United Kingdom Similar People Robert Calder, Horatio Nelson - 1st Viscount, Catherine Suckling, Edmund Nelson, Frances Nelson | ||
Lemuel Abbott (ca. 1730 – April 1776) was an English clergyman and poet.
Life
Little is known of his background, but he was a curate in Anstey, Leicestershire, and vicar of Thornton. He is known to posterity primarily for his collection of poems titled Poems on Various Subjects, whereto is Prefixed a Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse, published in 1765. Abbott and his wife Mary were probably the parents of the artist Lemuel Francis Abbott.
References
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