the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Encyclopedias
Laurence Eusden
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or LAURENCE EUSDEN (1688-1730), English poet, son of the Rev. Laurence Eusden, rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire, was baptized on the 6th of September 1688. He was educated at St Peter's school, York, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a minor fellow of his college in 1711, and in the next year was admitted to a full fellowship. He was made poet laureate in z 718 by the lord chancellor, the duke of Newcastle, as a reward for a flattering poem on his marriage. He was rector of Coningsby, Lincolnshire, where he died on the 27th of September 1730. His name is less remembered by his translations and gratulatory poems than by the numerous satirical allusions of Pope, e.g. " Know, Eusden thirsts no more for sack or praise; He sleeps among the dull of ancient days." Dunciad, bk. i. I. 293-294.
These files are public domain.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Laurence Eusden'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/laurence-eusden.html. 1910.
