biography
pronunciation:
[koom]
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| lived:
| (1741–1823)
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| biography:
| Writer and adventurer, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He inherited a fortune in 1762, led the life of an adventurer, and spent much time in debtors' jails. He studied at Oxford, and wrote metrical satires such as The Diaboliad (1776), but made his name with his three verse satires on popular travel-books, introducing the character of Dr Syntax. |
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