Thomas Russell, Dorset Poet, 1762-1788

Thomas Russell was born in Beaminster or Bridport, Dorset.

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He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford.

From Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911:

"English poet, born at Beaminster, early in 1762. He was the son of John Russell, an attorney at Bridport, in Dorsetshire, and his mother was Miss Virtue Brickle, of Shaftesbury. He was educated at the grammar school of Bridport, and in 1777 proceeded to Winchester".

His collection Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems was published in 1789.