Nicholas Amhurst

Nicholas Amhurst (born Oct. 16, 1697, Marden, Kent, Eng.—died April 12, 1742, Twickenham, Middlesex) was a satirical poet, political pamphleteer on behalf of the Whigs, and editor of The Craftsman, a political journal of unprecedented popularity that was hostile to the Whig government of Sir Robert Walpole. Expelled from the University of Oxford in 1719 (probably because of his outspoken views and his satirizing the university in verse), Amhurst settled in London and began a...