Thomas Warton
(1688-1745)

clergyman, schoolmaster, vicar of Basingstoke, and Professor of Poetry

Died aged c. 57

Thomas Warton, the elder (c. 1688 – 10 September 1745), was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, known as the second professor of poetry at Oxford, a position he owed to Jacobite sympathies.

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Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Thomas Warton 1728 - 1790 Poet Laureate, was born in the Vicarage on this site when his father, the Oxford Professor of Poetry, was Vicar of Basingstoke

Church Street, Basingstoke, United Kingdom where they lived