Robert Clarke manuscript material : 1 item 1811

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Robert Clarke manuscript material : 1 item 1811

Robert Clarke, English solicitor. He was a lawyer at Stockton, and the agent for the estates of the Earl of Bridgewater at Ellesmere in Shropshire. To John Hogg, a non-practicing barrister and country gentleman : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Apr 1811 : (HG'ANA 0004) : refering to the expulsion of Hogg's son, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Oxford. Published in full, with extensive commentary, in Shelley and His Circle, vol. II, p. 736.

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Clarke, Robert, solicitor

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Robert Clarke, English solicitor. He was a lawyer at Stockton, and the agent for the estates of the Earl of Bridgewater at Ellesmere in Shropshire. From the guide to the Robert Clarke manuscript material : 1 item, 1811, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862

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Hogg, John, 1761-1823.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...