Hovell-Thurlow, Edward, 2nd Baron Thurlow

(1781-1829)

   Born in London, the son of Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, he was educated at the Charterhouse, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he graduated M.A. in 1801. He succeeded to the barony in 1806 on the death of his uncle, who was Lord-chancellor from 1778 to 1792. One of the posts to which he was elected in 1788 was "clerk of the custodies of idiots and lunatics." He died at Brighton, Sussex, and was succeeded by his son, Edward Thomas. He edited for private circulation in 1810 Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, to which he attached some of his own sonnets. His contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine: Vol. 83-i (1813): pp. 357, 462. V; Vol. 83-ii (1813): pp. 469-470, 589, 664. V; Vol. 89-i (1819): pp. 254, 352 V. Some of his poems: Poems on Several Occasions, 1813; (1) Moonlight; (2) The Doge's Daughter; (3) Ariadne; (4) Carmen Britannicum, or The Song of Britain; (5) Angelica, or The Rape of Proteus, 1814; Select Poems of Edward Hovel Thurlow, 1821. Some of his poems: "May," "The Heron," "When in the Woods I Wander All Alone."

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