'TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE THOMAS TOWER ESQR'

Published by Essex?, 1778

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Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, United KingdomChristopher Edwards ABA ILAB

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Manuscript in ink, 4to (227x 184mm), three pages (final page blank); 12 stanzas of four lines each (48 lines in all); on laid paper, with traces of watermark, possibly 'S.I.' (paper damaged at fold). An attractive verse elegy, almost certainly commemorating the lawyer Thomas Tower (1698?-1778), who was MP for Wareham 1729-34, and for Wallingford 1734-41. This elegy is apparently unrecorded and unpublished. Tower came from a Buckinghamshire family, but he bought or inherited a house in Brentwood called Weald House (which still stands); in 1760-61 he was appointed High Sheriff for Essex. During his time in the Commons, he was a member of the governing body of the Georgia Society, promoting its establishment as the Province of Georgia in 1732, when he was named as one of the original twenty-one Trustees in the Royal Charter granted in that year. Not in the Folger's Union First-Line Index of English Verse (online), nor in Crum or Osborn.

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Title
'TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE THOMAS TOWER ESQR'
Author
[TOWER, Thomas.]
Publisher
Essex?
Publication year
1778
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Poetry

Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB

Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, United Kingdom

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