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John Hookham Frere PC (21 May 1769 – 7 January 1846) was an English diplomat and author. Early life. Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, a member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and became Second Wrangler in 1763.
John Hookham Frere (born May 21, 1769, London, Eng.—died Jan. 7, 1846, Valletta, Malta) was a British diplomat and man of letters. Frere was educated at Eton, where he met the future statesman George Canning (with whom he collaborated on The Anti-Jacobin ), and at the University of Cambridge.
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The Hoxne Handaxe (right) next to the Gray's Inn Lane Handaxe in the British Museum. John Frere FSA FRS (10 August 1740 – 12 July 1807) was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.
John Hookham Frere was an English diplomat and author, best known for his contributions to the development of light verse and political satire. His work, though largely overlooked during his lifetime, had a profound impact on later poets like Lordbyron and William Makepeace Thackeray.
John Hookham Frere, a diplomatist and author, was the eldest son of John Frere of Roydon Hall, near Diss, Norfolk, by his wife Jane, only child of John Hookham of Beddington, Surrey, a rich London merchant, was born in London on 21 May 1769, and in 1785 went from a preparatory school at Putney to Eton, where he formed his lifelong friendship ...
Poet Biography. English diplomatist and author, was born in London on the 21st of May 1769.
Feb 7, 2009 · The works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere in verse and prose.. by Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846; Frere, Bartle, Sir, 1815-1884; Frere, William Edward, 1811-1880, ed; Aristophanes; Theognis
