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(‎Added reference to claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: In addition to his job as a public servant, Hill was a popular Latin poet, thanks to a single Latin poem, Nundinae Sturbrigienses, which secured his reputation. He published this and other verses in collections by Curll., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1637953760450)
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* c. 1682, + 20 September 1758, English poet, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Trade (1737-1758)
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Thomas Hill
* c. 1682, + 20 September 1758, English poet, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Trade (1737-1758)

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    Education: Westminster School; pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge 1701; awarded a scholarship 1702; BA 1705; fellow in 1707; MA 1708; elected a fellow of the Royal Society 1725
    Periodicals etc.: Nundinae and two other poems opening Musae Britannicae, ed. Curll (1711); An English poem ‘On the Death of Vulcan, of Sordid Memory, an Old Servant at Trinity-College, Cambridge’ in Original Poems and Translations by Mr Hill, Mr Eusden, Mr Broome, Dr King etc., ed. Curll (1714)
    Overall: In addition to his job as a public servant, Hill was a popular Latin poet, thanks to a single Latin poem, Nundinae Sturbrigienses, which secured his reputation. He published this and other verses in collections by Curll.