Beddoes Thomas Lovell

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, son of the preceding, was born at Clifton in 1803, his mother being a sister of Miss Edgeworth. Educated at the Charterhouse and Oxford, he went abroad to study medicine, but his Radical views got him into trouble. His genius lay in the direction of poetry. His Improvisatore was published in 1821, and his Bride's Tragedy in 1822. Death's Jest Book, a volume of miscellaneous verses, appeared after his decease, which occurred somewhat mysteriously in the hospital at Basle in 1849.