Richard Graves

:This page is about the English writer, Richard Graves. For information about the Irish/Australian writer Richard Graves, see Richard Harry Graves.

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Richard Graves (May 4, 1715 - November 23, 1804) was an English poet and novelist.

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May 4 - 1715 - November 23 - 1804 - English

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A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and rector of Claverton, near Bath, he was an enthusiastic collector of poems, a translator, essayist and correspondent. His best-known work is the picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote (1773).

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All Souls College, Oxford - Claverton - Bath - Picaresque novel - 1773

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He served as chaplin to Mary Townshend, Countess Chatham and as private tutor to Prince Hoare and Thomas Malthus. He was a close friend of William Shenstone, lowborn Ralph Allen and William Warburton

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Mary Townshend, Countess Chatham - Prince Hoare - Thomas Malthus - William Shenstone - Ralph Allen - William Warburton

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He had a son of the same name who was vicar of Great Malvern.

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