Nicholas Amhurst [SEP] date of death
Nicholas Amhurst
Nicholas Amhurst (16 October 1697 – 27 April 1742) was an English poet and political writer.
Life.
Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and at St John's College, Oxford. In 1719 he was expelled from the university, ostensibly for his irregularities of conduct, but in reality (according to his own account) because of his whig principles. His politics were sufficiently evident in many of his works: a congratulatory epistle to Addison
Monument.
A monument was erected to Latewar's memory in St John's College chapel by his father; the date of his death is incorrectly given as 27 July. Nicholas Amhurst, in his "Terræ Filius" (p. 185), alleges that on the monument there were these lines:
They are not there now. The actual inscription is given in Anthony Wood's "History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford", (p. 566, 1786 edition). It has been attributed, on