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Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
(1795-1854) Poet and biographer, son of a brewer at Reading, where he was born, and which he represented in Parliament, 1835-41, was educated at Mill Hill School. He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1821, and became a Judge in 1849. He died suddenly of apoplexy while charging the Grand Jury at Stafford. He wrote much for reviews, and in 1835 produced Ion, a tragedy, followed by The Athenian Captive (1838), and The Massacre of Glencoe, all of which were acted with success. Talfourd was the friend and literary executor of Charles Lamb (q.v.), and puborn in two sections his Memoirs and Letters. In 1837 he introduced the Copyright Bill, which was passed with modifications in 1842.
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