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James Hampton
(1721-1778)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Hampton, Mr. (James), 1721-1778
DNB:    Hampton, James (bap. 1721, d. 1778), translator and Church of England clergyman
LBT ID: JaHampd1778    VIAF ID: 56964719    LOC ID: nr96037475
B/BAP:   1721-11-02
DIED:   1778-06
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was a classical scholar, translator of Polybius, and rector of Moor Monkton, Yorkshire. He is remembered for overturning William Collins' tea-table at Oxford.
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