Thomas Kibble Hervey
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Thomas Kibble Hervey was a British
United Kingdom
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 poet
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 and critic
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.

Thomas Kibble Hervey was born in Paisley
Paisley
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, Scotland, and raised in Manchester
Manchester
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, England where he was educated at Manchester Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
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. He entered Caius College, Cambridge in 1822, but migrated to Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge
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 the following year. Articled to a firm of Manchester solicitors, he studied for the bar but was not called. While at Cambridge he began a lengthy career as a leading contributor to the Athenaeum
Athenaeum (magazine)
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in 1828, and published Australia, a poem (1824) and Prometheus (1832). He later edited Friendship's Offering (1826-27), and the Amaranth (1839); contributed to annuals; edited the Athenaeum
Athenaeum (magazine)
The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. It had a reputation for publishing the very best writers of the age....

(23 May 1846 to December 1853).

On 17 October 1843, Hervey married Eleanora Louisa Montagu, a playwright and also authoress and poet. He died in Kentish Town
Kentish Town
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, London
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, England in 1859 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery
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Other works

  • The poetical sketch book (1829)
  • The book of Christmas (1836)
  • The English Helicon (1841)
  • The poems of T. K. Hervey, edited by his wife with a memoir (1866)

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