NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bampfylde, John, 1754-1797 DNB: Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick (1754–1796), poet LBT ID: JoBampf1796 VIAF ID: 46605947 LOC ID: nr89000859 | B/BAP: 1754-08-27 DIED: 1796 |
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The second son of Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde; educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he
published a collection of Wartonian sonnets in 1778 before spending twenty years confined
to a private madhouse in Sloane Street. | |
REFERENCES TO John Codrington Warwick Bampfylde: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 3 October 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) |