John Carr

JOHN CARR (1732 - 1807)

Carr was born in Muggleswick and educated at the village school and by the curate Daniel Watson. He went on to St Paul's School and became headmaster of Hertford Grammar School. He published his famous translation of Lucian at intervals between 1779 and 1798. He also produced a good pastiche of Sterne in A Third Volume of Tristram Shandy (1760) and mock-heroic poem Filial Piety (1764).

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JOHN CARR (1732 - 1807) Carr was born in Muggleswick and educated at the village school and by the curate Daniel Watson. He went on to St Paul's School and became headmaster of Hertford Grammar School. He published his famous translation of Lucian at intervals between 1779 and 1798. He also produced a good pastiche of Sterne in A Third Volume of Tristram Shandy (1760) and mock-heroic poem Filial Piety (1764).
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