Author: Noble, Thomas
Biography:
NOBLE, Thomas (1772-1837: ancestry.com)
A versatile writer, Noble started his poetic career with handsome quarto publications. His Blackheath (1808), dedicated to Princess Caroline and with an extensive subscription list, was illustrated with engravings by his brothers Samuel and William Noble. He was born in London; he died and is buried in Derby. In 1811 he moved north and joined the staff of the Liverpool Mercury, remaining there as editor until 1822, at which point he moved again to become the editor of the Derby Reporter. In 1833 he returned to London to try to earn a living there by literary work, but with limited success. In 1836 and again in 1837 he was obliged to turn to the RLF for assistance, which they granted; he then retired definitively to Derby. His application mentions a wife but no reliable record of the marriage has been discovered. Noble had radical political sympathies: his poem "Rushton" was circulating in 1815 before he included it in his 1821 Poems and in 1815 he also announced "Hampden" (which never appeared as a separate publication but was recycled as "Harp of Freedom, a Concentric Ode" in 1821). His final volume of poetry, Julia (1828), is dated from Normanton, near Derby, and between 1829 and his death he was the editor of several publications related to Derbyshire--a county history, a gazeteer, and a guide to the Peak District. (ancestry.com 16 May 2020; RLF #854; John Watkins, A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland [1816]) HJ
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- T. Noble