Thomas Gray

Historian, Author

1716 – 1771

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Who was Thomas Gray?

Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

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  • Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
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Born
Dec 26, 1716
Cornhill, London
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • Eton College
  • Peterhouse, Cambridge
  • University of Cambridge
Employment
  • Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
    (1768 - )
Died
Jul 30, 1771
Cambridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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