About Lemuel Abbott
Lived 1730 – 1776 (aged 45–46). Lemuel Abbott was a British writer and poet.
Lemuel Abbott (ca. 1730 – April 1776) was an English clergyman and poet.
Life Little is known of his background, but he was a curate in Anstey, and vicar of Thornton, both in Leicestershire. He is known to posterity primarily for his collection of poems titled Poems on Various Subjects, whereto is Prefixed a Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse, published in 1765. Abbott and his wife Mary were probably the parents of the artist Lemuel Francis Abbott.
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English clergyman and poet
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Lemuel Abbott was born in 1730.
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