Miscellany of poems transcribed and in part composed by George Weller. ca. 1750.

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Miscellany of poems transcribed and in part composed by George Weller. ca. 1750.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54872161

Comprises 43 poems, including several relating to Tonbridge School and one addressed to members of the Austen family. The manuscript falls into four parts, divided by sections of blank pages: 'Edward the Second'; original poems by George Weller; Tonbridge School poems; and miscellaneous poems.

1 v. (vi, 226 p.), manuscript.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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SNAC Resource ID: 7682907

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Austen family.

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Tonbridge School

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Weller, George, 1907-2002

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George Weller (1710-1778) was the son of Robert Weller of Tonbridge and Elizabeth Poley of Boxted Hall, Suffolk. He was at Tonbridge School in 1721-2, and probably longer, and continued to live at Tonbridge, and then at Tunbridge Wells until some time after 1766. He was a lawyer and Recorder of Queenborough, and he seems to have played an active role in county affairs. On inheriting Boxted Hall from his mother, he took the added surname of Poley, and later moved to Suffolk, where he died in 1778...