Soame Jenyns (Q387537)

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* 1704, + 1787-12-18, British writer
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Soame Jenyns
* 1704, + 1787-12-18, British writer

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    Date of birth
    1 January 1704Gregorian
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    Date of death
    18 December 1787Gregorian
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    Place of birth
    London
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    Place of death
    London
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    Tilney Street, Audley Square, London
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    Biographical notes
    Education: privately tutored until age 17, entered St John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner in 1722 and matriculated in 1724, left 1725 w/o a degree
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    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
    Career: married heiress Mary Soame 1726 until she left him in 1742, succeeded his father as the squire of Bottisham in 1740, remarried to his cousin, Elizabeth Gray 1754, Whig politician -- elected to represent Cambridgeshire in 1741 as the preferred candidate of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, returned in 1747, removed 1753, compensated with £600 (until 1755) and provided with a safe seat purchased for him in the rotten borough of Dunwich, appointed one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, re-elected to parliament 5 more times
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    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
    Periodicals etc.: Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems. By Several Hands (1748), published five essays in the World in 1755, ‘Epitaph on Johnson’ published in GM 1783
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    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
    Overall: While at university, Jenyns excelled at writing amatory and satiric verse in the post-Restoration style. In 1730 he produced a manuscript volume of songs and love poems dedicated to Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, a large portion of which was published in Dodsleys' collection. This led to his recognition as a wit and satirist. He published a few collections and continued to write occasional verse and jeux d'esprit, though he shifted his focus to essays on social, political, religious, and economic subjects. His Free Inquiry was ridiculed by Samuel Johnson. He lived a life of "rural" comfort as squire of Bottisham until he began his extensive career as a Whig politician.
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