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Francis Fawkes
Francis Fawkes (1720–1777) was an English poet and translator. Fawkes translated Anacreon, Sappho, and other classics, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, "The Brown Jug", and of two poems, "Bramham Park" and "Partridge Shooting". His translation of the "Argonautica" in rhymed couplets appeared in 1780.
Life.
Fawkes was born near Doncaster, the son of Jeremiah Fawkes, for twenty-eight
Farnley hall was occupied in the 1780s by Francis Fawkes. After his death in 1786, Farnley Hall was inherited by Walter Hawkesworth of Hawksworth Hall, who adopted the surname Fawkes by Royal Licence and commissioned John Carr to build the new range alongside the old. When Walter Fawkes died in 1792 the hall passed to his son, also Walter Hawkesworth, who also adopted the surname Fawkes, and was known as Walter Ramsden Fawkes. He was MP for Yorkshire in 1806 and was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1823. During his