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John Glanvill (1664?–1735) was an English barrister, known as a poet and translator. LifeBorn at Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, about 1664, he was the son of Julius Glanvil of Lincoln's Inn, by his wife, Anne Bagnall of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London; Sir John Glanville was his grandfather. He became a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1678, was elected scholar 10 June 1680, and graduate B.A. 24 October 1682, M.A. 24 November 1685.[1] In 1683 Glanvill stood for a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, but Thomas Creech was elected. Glanvill was affronted, and, according to Thomas Hearne, was expelled by his college. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar.[1] Glanvill died a wealthy bachelor on 12 June 1735, aged 71, at Catchfrench, in St. Germans, Cornwall, an estate he had purchased in 1726.[1] WorksGlanvill was the author of:[1]
He also translated from the Latin Seneca's Agamemnon, act i., which, with A Song, was in Miscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands, London, 1685. In the Annual Miscellany for 1694, pt. iv. of Miscellany Poems, London, 1694, he had translations from Seneca and Horace. He also translated Fontenelle's A Plurality of Worlds, London, 1688; other editions, London, 1695; London, 1702. Some his poems were reprinted in vol. iv. of John Nichols's Collection.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Glanvill, John|volume=21}}
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