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Charles Churchill (satirist)

Charles Churchill
BornFebruary 1732
Westminster, England
Died4 November 1764(1764-11-04) (aged 32)
Boulogne, France
EducationWestminster School
Occupation(s)Anglican clergyman, poet, satirist
SpouseMiss Scott
ChildrenTwo sons
A satirical engraving of Wilkes by William Hogarth, who shows him with a demonic-looking wig, crossed eyes, and two editions of his The North Briton: Numbers 17 (in which he attacked, amongst others, Hogarth) and the famous 45
Charles Churchill's portrait was engraved and used by Paul Revere as a fake portrait of Colonel Benjamin Church to illustrate a 1772 edition of Benjamin Church's The Entertaining History of King Philip's War.[1]

Charles Churchill (February 1732[2] – 4 November 1764) was an English poet and satirist.

  1. ^ "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society". 1890.
  2. ^ James Sambrook, 'Churchill, Charles (1732–1764)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006. Notes that 1887 DNB edition cites February 1731.

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