William Broome

(1689-1745)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Broome, William, 1689-1745 DNB: Broome, William (bap. 1689, d. 1745), translator and poet LBT ID: WiBroom1745 VIAF ID: 63859267 LOC ID: nr90028548	B/BAP: 1689-05-03 DIED: 1745-11-16
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Educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge, he was an English poet and translator who assisted Alexander Pope in his translation of the Odyssey (1722-26).
REFERENCES TO William Broome: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 12: Litigation Verse 2: p. 137a p. 137a Ch. 4: Coleridge Verse 2: p. 50a p. 50a Ch. 16: A. Conway Verse 2: p. 235a p. 235a Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 7