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Prior, Matthew (1664 - 1721)

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  1. Horace, Lib. I, Epist. IX, Imitated
  2. A Simile
  3. To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, the Author Suppos'd Forty
  4. To A Lady, She Refusing to Continue a Dispute with me, and Leaving me in the Argument: An Ode
  5. To Chloe Jealous
Given Name: 
Matthew
Family Name: 
Prior
Birth Date: 
July 21, 1664
Death Date: 
September 18, 1721
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : George Prior

Education

  • Wimborne free grammar school
  • Westminster school
  • B.A.St. John's College, Cambridge 1686
Spoken Languages: 
English

Honours

  • M.A., Cambridge

Occupations

  • Commissioner of trade and plantations
  • King William's Ambassador to the Hague
  • Member of Parliament
  • Secretary in negotiations at the treaty of Ryswick
  • Secretary of state in Ireland
  • Secretary to the Embassy, Paris
Literary Period: 
Augustan
Literary Movement: 
Unknown
Cause of Death: 
cholera
Buried At: 
Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
First RPO Edition: 
1996-2000
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