Richard Polwhele (January 6, 1760 - March 12, 1838) was an English clergyman, poet and topographer. January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 359 days (360 in leap years) remaining. ... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in leap years). ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

Biography

Born at Truro, Cornwall, Polwhele was educated at Truro grammar school, where he precociously published The Fate of Llewellyn. He went on to Christ Church, Oxford, continuing to write poetry, but leaving Oxford without taking a degree. In 1782 he was ordained curate, married Loveday Warren, and moved to a curacy at Kenton, Devon. On his wife's death in 1793, Polwhele was left with three children; later the same year he married Mary Tyrrell, briefly taking up a curacy at Exmouth before being appointed to the small living of Manaccan in Cornwall in 1974. From 1806, when he took up a curacy at Kenwyn, Truro, he was non-resident at Manaccan: Polwhele angered Manaccan parishioners with his efforts to restore church and vicarage. Population 20,920[1] (2001) OS grid reference SW825445 Location - District - County - Region - Country - Sovereign State   - Carrick - Cornwall - South West - England - United Kingdom Services - Police - Fire/rescue - Ambulance   - Devon and Cornwall - Cornwall - South Western Communication - Post town - Postal district - Dialling code   - Truro - TR1 - 01872 Politics - UK Parliament - EU Parliament   - Truro... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England, United Kingdom, on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... College name Christ Church Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister College Trinity College Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR President William Dorsey Undergraduates 426 MCR or GCR President {{{MCR President}}} Graduates 154 Home page Boat Club Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ... Kenton is a small village located near Exeter, the capital of Devon, England. ... Map sources for Exmouth at grid reference SY004809 Exmouth is a town in Devon, England, at the east side of the mouth of the River Exe. ... Manaccan is a village and civil parish in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England. ...

When in Devon, Polwhele had edited Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall (2 vols, 1792) for an Exeter literary society; however, Essays by a Society of Gentlemen at Exeter (1796) caused a rift between Polwhele and other society members. Polwhele had by this time begun his History of Devonshire: this appeared in 3 volumes, 1793-1806, but his coverage was uneven and subscribers deserted. His 7-volume History of Cornwall appeared 1803-1808, with a new edition in 1816.

Polwhele's volumes of poetry included The Art of Eloquence, a didactic poem (1785), The idylls, epigrams, and fragments of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the elegies of Tyrtaeus (1786), The English Orator (1796), Influence of Local Attachment (1796), and Poetic Trifles (1796). However, The Unsex'd Females, a Poem (1798), a defensive reaction to women's literary self-assertion, is today perhaps Polwhele's most notorious poetic production: in the poem Hannah More is Christ to Mary Wollstonecraft's Satan. Hannah More (February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. ... Mary Wollstonecraft (circa 1797) by John Opie. ...

Polwhele contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine and (1799-1805) to the Anti-Jacobin Review. He published sermons, theological essays for the Church Union Society, and attacks on Methodism (although he befriended his main Methodist antagonist, Samuel Drew). At the end of his life, retired to his estate in Polwhele, he worked to produce Traditions and Recollections (2 vols, 1826) and Biographical Sketches (3 vols, 1831). He died at Truro. The Gentlemans Magazine was the first general-interest magazine, and the most influential periodical of its time. ... For the Methodist school of ancient Greek medicine, see Methodism (history of medicine) Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Samuel Drew (March 6, 1765–March 29, 1833) was an English Methodist theologian. ...

External links

• W. P. Courtney, ‘Polwhele, Richard (1760–1838)’, rev. Grant P. Cerny, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 19 Feb 2007
• 'Polwhele, Richard 1760-1838' at WorldCat Identities
• Richard Polwhele, The Unsex'd Females: A Poem, Addressed to the Author of the Pursuit of Literature. London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. 1798.
• Anna Seward, Sonnet to the Rev. Richard Polwhele, on his poem upon the influence of local attachment