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Chatterton was born on November 20, 1752 in Bristol, the posthumous son of a schoolmaster—also named Thomas—of an eccentric disposition but with strong musical and antiquarian interests. The elder Thomas Chatterton’s ancestors had been sextons of the church of Saint Mary in the parish of Redcliff for generations.
1770: On the 24th August 1770, Chatterton, according to a note by Dr Lort, buys calomel and vitriol from Cross the Apothecary. 1770: The Pocket-Book is found in Chatterton's room and is returned to his mother, along with Catcott's letter and some other papers, probably during September 1770. 1792: Sarah Chatterton dies. Mary inherits the family ...
Chatterton to Sarah Chatterton, 6 May 1770 (Works, 560). This letter, along with others of Chatterton, was well known. Besides its inclusion in Love and Madness (1770), 170–1, it was reprinted in Gregory’s Life (1789). Isaac Fell, publisher of Chatterton’s ‘Resignation’ and The Consuliad’ in the Freeholder’s Magazine, was in the ...
- David Fairer
- 1999
Poet, forger. Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child ...
Giles Malpas Chatterton, first child & son of Thomas and Sarah Chatterton. Giles Malpas was named after the man who donated the funds to build the house for the school master and his family. Born on Wednesday 12 December 1750, baptised 1 January 1751, died Tuesday 16 April 1751, aged 4 months 4 days. It is safe to say that the above entry in ...
Jan 23, 2021 · The poet Thomas Chatterton – who died in August 1770 in a London garret aged just 17 – would for decades afterwards be an icon for struggling artists and misunderstood wordsmiths. He’d be an archetype for all those with leanings towards the Romantic and gothic – Blake, Byron, Keats and Shelley praised him while the Pre-Raphaelites put him in their pictures.
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During his final brief episode in 1770 as a Grub Street hack writer in London, Chatterton wrote whatever the journalistic market would bear; short stories and musical works attest his creative ...
