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John Hookham Frere
(1769-1846) Diplomatist, translator, and author, eldest son of John Frere, a distinguished antiquary, was born in London, and educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became a clerk in the Foreign Office, and subsequently entering Parliament was appointed Under Foreign Secretary. In 1800 he was Envoy to Portugal, and was Ambassador to Spain 1802-4, and again 1808-9. In 1818 he retired to Malta, where he died. He was a contributor to the Anti-Jacobin, to Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets (1801), and to Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. He also made some masterly translations from Aristophanes ; but his chief original contribution to literature was a burlesque poem on Arthur and the Round Table, purporting to be by William and Robert Whistlecraft. All F.'s writings are characterised no less by scholarship than by wit.
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