Lemuel Abbott
Lemuel Abbott (ca. 1730 – April 1776) was an English clergyman and poet.
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Lemuel Abbott
- Born
- 1730
- Died
- 1776
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Occupation
- writer · poet
- Languages
- English
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Lemuel Abbott (ca. 1730 – April 1776) was an English clergyman and poet.
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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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