John Codrington Bampfylde
John Codrington Warwick Bampfylde or Bampfield (27 August 1754 – 1796/7) was an 18th-century English poet. He came from a prominent Devon family, his father being Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet, and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1] He led a dissipated life in London, and presumably suffered from some mental illness towards the end of it. He died of tuberculosis.
His only published work was Sixteen Sonnets (1778), which attracted the attention of Robert Southey.
References
- ↑ "Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick (BMFD771JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Leslie Stephen, "Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick (1754–1796)", rev. S. C. Bushell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1262, accessed 25 June 2007. The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource:
"Bampfylde, John Codrington". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- John Codrington Bampfylde
- National Portrait Gallery: John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796), Poet
- Works by or about John Codrington Bampfylde at Internet Archive
- Works by John Codrington Bampfylde at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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