Stephen Duck [the Thresher Poet]

(1705 c.-1756)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756 DNB: Duck, Stephen (1705?–1756), poet, LBT ID: StDuck1756 VIAF ID: 3667653 LOC ID: n85009026	B/BAP: 1705 DIED: 1756
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The laboring poet who rose to prominence through the patronage of Queen Caroline; he was afterwards rector of Byfleet, Surrey.
REFERENCES TO Stephen Duck [the Thresher Poet]: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 8 March 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 14 August 1828 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804 Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828