Life
1729-1767; b. Co. Limerick, son of a clergyman and namesake; ed. TCD,
Goldsmith’s friend; dissipated fortune and enlisted; London scribbler
in the newspapers and book-seller’s hack, translating Voltaire’s
The Henriade, which appeared in British Ladies’ Mag.,
for Ralph Griffins [who first employed Goldsmith]; shared in Goldsmith’s
Life of Voltaire; had to apologise for letter to Garrick attacking
Mossop and others; Goldsmith’s epitaph in Wednesday Club preserved
his memory. ODNB PI.
References
Dictionary of National Biography calls him a ‘bookseller’s
hack, remembered for Goldsmith’s epitaph on him for the Wednesday
Club.’
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