biography
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| (1641–1713)
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| biography:
| Critic and historian, born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and entered Gray's Inn in 1666. He published translations, critical discussions on poetry, dramas, and works on history, and in 1692 was appointed royal historiographer. His critical works include The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd (1678) and A Short View of Tragedy (1693). He is chiefly remembered as the compiler of the collection of historical materials known as the Foedera (20 vols, 1704–35). |
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