W. G.

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~William Gifford, Esq.~

On Sunday morning, the 31st of December, 1826, at twenty minutes before

one o’clock, died, “at his house in James-street, Buckingham-gate, in

the seventy-first year of his age, William Gifford, Esq., author of the

‘Baviad and Mæviad,’ translator of ‘Juvenal and Persius,’ and editor of

the ‘Quarterly Review,’ from its commencement down to the beginning of

the year just past. To the translation of ‘Juvenal’ is prefixed a memoir

of himself, which is perhaps as modest and pleasant a piece of

autobiography as ever was written.”--_The Times_, January 1, 1827.

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