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Adm. pens. (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, July 4, 1791. Of Northamptonshire. S. of Richard. ' Matric. Michs. 1792; Scholar, 1792; B.A. 1800. Ord. deacon (Sarum) Sept. 1, 1799; priest, Oct. 6, 1799; C. of Wilton, Wilts., 1799. Probably the person thus referred to in the Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816: ‘Edwards, Richard, B.A., of Gt Russell Street, Bloomsbury; the author of some tracts which create very strong doubts respecting the sanity of his intellects. His character might indeed be collected from the opening sentence of the first of them, where he says: “This subject must naturally be brief, for as there were no poems in verse in the English language before those which I have recently written, no rules of English prosody were needed.”’ The tracts were Treatise on English Prosody; Specimens of English accentuated Verse; Specimens of English non-accentuated Verse. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV., 235.)