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Ambrose Philips
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Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Born in 1674
Died on 18th of June 1749

Born 1674. Died 1749 - English poet.

Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. Became MP for Armagh. Established reputation as a writer with Winter-piece in the Tatler and six pastoral poems in Tonson’s Miscellany (1709).

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