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Author: Maxey, Samuel

Biography:

MAXEY, Samuel (1778-1858: findmypast.com)

He was baptised on 21 June 1778 at Bletsoe, a village about six miles north of Bedford, Bedfordshire, one of four children of Charles Maxey and Ann (or Anne) Elizabeth Whittle, who had married at Stevenage, Lincolnshire, on 22 Nov. 1758. Nothing is known of his education but he could read French well enough to translate Florian (q.v.) in 1805, at which time he appears to have made an attempt to earn a living or at least a name as a writer. CR gave his poem on Nelson’s victory a tepid compliment for getting the accent right for “Trafalgar,” but his literary career came to an end. No further records have been found—notably no Census and no marriage—until his death and burial at Bedford in 1858. (findmypast.com 24 Apr. 2023; ancestry.com 24 Apr. 2023; CR ser. 3, 7 [1806], 301-2)

 

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