Born in 1716, died in 1771; educated at Eton, where he began
a lifelong friendship with Horace Walpole; traveled on the
Continent with Walpole in 1739; settled in Cambridge in
1741, where in 1768 he was made professor of Modern History;
refused the laureateship in 1757; published his "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard" in 1751; his poems and
letters collected by Mason in 1775.
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