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* 1707-04-22 Sharpham, + 1754-10-08 Lisbon, English novelist and dramatist, English novelist and dramatist
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Henry Fielding |
* 1707-04-22 Sharpham, + 1754-10-08 Lisbon, English novelist and dramatist, English novelist and dramatist |
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8 October 1754Gregorian
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Education: taught Latin at home by John Oliver; Eton College 1719, ran away in 1721; University of Leiden 1728-30; entered the Middle Temple to begin preparing for the bar 1737
Patrons: sought the patronage of Sir Robert Walpole for a time (in 1729–30 he wrote an unfinished burlesque of Pope's Dunciad satirizing the minister's enemies); oddly, appears to have been a benefactor of sorts from 1740-2, paying him to suppress a book and subscribing to his Miscellanies; Lyttelton; James Harris of Salisbury; Ralph Allen of Bath; the duke of Bedford -- his most powerful patron; appointed Fielding high steward of the New forest, a royal preserve, held 1746-1748
Coteries: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; George Lyttelton; William Pitt; Sir Charles Hanbury Williams; James Ralph; Thomas Cooke
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