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| 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 |
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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. | |
