John Codrington Bampfylde
John Codrington Warwick Bampfylde or Bampfield (27 August 1754 – 1796/7) was an 18th-century English poet. He came from a prominent Devon family, his father being Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet, and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1] He had financial problems, he had made romantic advances to Mary Palmer, niece of Joshua Reynolds, which she had refused, and he spent the latter part of his life in a psychiatric hospital in London.[2][3] He died of tuberculosis.
John Codrington Bampfylde (right) with George Huddesford, double portrait by Joshua Reynolds
His only published work was Sixteen Sonnets (1778), which attracted the attention of Robert Southey.
References
- "Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick (BMFD771JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Postle, Martin. "'Mr Huddesford and Mr Bampfylde', Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1778 | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- Basker, James G.; Gilder, Richard, eds. (2002). Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810. Yale University Press. p. 266. ISBN 0300091729.
- Leslie Stephen, "Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick (1754–1796)", rev. S. C. Bushell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1262, accessed 25 June 2007. The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- John Codrington Bampfylde
- National Portrait Gallery: John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796), Poet
- Works by or about John Codrington Bampfylde at Internet Archive
- Works by John Codrington Bampfylde at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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