Biography of poet thomas parking
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Thomas Park
English antiquary and bibliographer
This article is about an English antiquary. For US zoologist, see Thomas Park (AAAS).
Thomas Park (–) was an English antiquary and bibliographer, also known as a literary editor.
Life
[edit]He was the son of parents who lived at East Acton, Middlesex. When ten years old he was sent to a grammar school at Heighington, County Durham, and remained there for more than fem years.
He was brought up as an engraver, and produced mezzotint portraits, including John Thomas, bishop of Rochester, and Miss Penelope Boothby, after Sir Joshua Reynolds; Mrs. Jordan as the Comic Muse, after John Hoppner; and a Magdalen after Ubaldo Gandolfi. In he abandoned this career, and devoted himself to literature and the study of antiquities. In London he lived in turn in Piccadilly; Marylebone High Street, where Richard Heber used to drink tea two or three times a week; Durweston Street, Portman Square; and Hampstead, where he was involved with l
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Biography
Thomas Gray ()
© National Portrait Gallery, London
This biographical sketch is intended as a first general approach to the man and his works. The konto is divided into three major parts: the early years (), which includes Gray's childhood, his time at Eton College, his friendship with Ashton, West, and Walpole, his early years at Cambridge, and his Grand Tour; the middle years (), which gives an account of Gray's early poems, his life after his return to Cambridge, the history of the "Elegy", and concludes with the publication of his Pindaric Odes; the later years (), which contains Gray's life and studies from his Norse and Welsh odes to his final composition, his travels in several regions of Great Britain, as well as his later acquaintances. A brief conclusion at the end highlights Gray's achievements and poetic legacy. This account largely focuses on Gray's life in relation to his poetry, it touches only briefly on his other important and fruitful activ
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Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
PARK, Thomas ( ODNB)
He was born on 24 Oct. and baptised on 13 Apr. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, the son of John Park and his wife Susanna Nevison, who had married at the same church on 23 Oct. The family lived in the village of East Acton (now in West London). His mother was baptised at Caldecott, near Oakham, Rutland, and probably organised his education at the grammar school in Heighington, Lincolnshire, sixty miles away. (Other sources have sometimes confused this Heighington with the village in Durham, or mixed up the family names of his mother and his wife.) He then trained as an engraver and throughout the s, prior to his marriage, was working at various addresses around Pall Mall. He married Hester Maria Reynolds, a musician and keyboard composer, on 21 Apr. at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. After marriage, he is listed at 4 St. Margaret St., Westminster, and at least two daughters were baptised at St. Margaret’s. By he ha