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Birth date
1729
Death date
1811
Country
England
Poems by this Poet
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The Marriage of Sir Gawaine
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The Legend of King Arthur
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The Bonny Earl of Murray
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The Boy and the Mantle
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Sweet William's Ghost
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Sir Lancelot Du Lake
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King Arthur's Death
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King Ryence's Challenge
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Edward, Edward
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Barbara Allen's Cruelty
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Thomas Percy was born on the 13th of April 1729 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. He was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School, later attending Christ Church, Oxford to receive a B.A. (1746 to 1750), again for an M.A. (1750 to 1753) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1770 for a D.D.. He was fluent in English, Latin and Greek. Between 1753 and 1782 he lived in Easton-Maudit, Northamptonshire.

He was Protestant bishop of Dromore, before becoming a Dean. He married Anne Percy in 1759, and went on to become the father to two daughters; Barbara Isted and Elizabeth Meade. He died on the 30th of September in 1811 in Dromore, Ireland, and was subsequently buried at Dromore Cathedral.