Henry Kirke White [SEP] date of death
Henry Kirke White
Henry Kirke White (21 March 1785 – 19 October 1806) was an English poet. He died at the young age of 21.
Life.
White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning. By age seven, he was giving reading lessons (unbeknownst to the rest of the family, being offered after the household were abed) to a family servant. After being briefly
, translator and a prominent member of the Bluestocking circle
- March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie (born 1744), German author and poet
- May 6 – Ann Yearsley (born c. 1753), English poet and writer
- July 16 – Caterino Mazzolà (born 1745), Italian poet and librettist
- October 19 – Henry Kirke White (born 1785), English
- October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith (born 1749), English poet and novelist
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