where his father was sexton of Redcliff Church. Having vainly endeavoured to interest Horace Walpole, and other wealthy scholars, in his favour, he proceeded to London, with the hope of obtaining subsistence for himself as a party writer; and there, in a state of despondency, produced by absolute want, he destroyed himself by poison, in 1770, at the early age of eighteen.

REV. GEORGE CRABBE.

BORN, 1754; DIED, 1832.

CRABBE was the son of a collector of salt-duties at Aldborough, Suffolk, by whose aid he received an education, which, though imperfect, enabled him to attempt practising as a surgeon in his native place. Failing in this, he proceeded to London, in a state of extreme poverty, and vainly sought a publisher for his poems. Fortunately he introduced himself to the notice of the celebrated Edmund Burke ; and under his kind and generous aid, he was enabled to enter into holy orders, and to spend the remainder of his life in comparative affluence and comfort. He died at his rectory of Troubridge, Wiltshire, in the 78th year of his age.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

BORN, 1770; DIED, 1850.

WORDSWORTH, though left an orphan in early life, enjoyed the full advantages of an English University education, and had he chosen to enter the Church, as his friends