Born in 1775, died in 1864; educated at Oxford; visited
Paris in 1802; joined the Spaniards at Corunna against the
French in 1808; purchased Llanthony Abbey in 1809; owing to
family troubles, removed to Jersey in 1814; and then to
France and Italy, settling in Florence in 1821, where he
remained until his return to England in 1835; his first
book, a volume of poems, appeared in 1795, and his last,
"Heroic Idyls," in 1863.
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