Francis Coventry

A native of Cambridgeshire, he was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1748 and M.A. 1752.{{acad|CVNY744F|Coventry, Francis}} He was appointed by his kinsman the Earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, and died of smallpox at Whitchurch.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Coventry, Francis|volume=12}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmU3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA588|year=1808|pages=588}}

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Coventry was the author of:

• Penshurst, a poem, inscribed to William Perry, esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, 1750, reprinted in vol. iv. of Dodsley's Miscellanies;
• the fifteenth number of the World, 12 April 1753, containing Strictures on the Absurd Novelties introduced in Gardening;
• the satirical romance and roman à clef, Pompey the Little, or the Adventures of a Lapdog, 1751 (5th ed. 1773), which Lady Mary Wortley Montagu preferred to Peregrine Pickle. Several characters in were intended for ladies well known in contemporary society.

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• [http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00089.shtml Francis Coventry] at the [http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/ Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)]
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Category:1725 births

Category:1759 deaths

Category:18th-century English Anglican priests

Category:18th-century English male writers

Category:18th-century English novelists

Category:English male novelists

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