Richard Owen Cambridge

Richard Owen Cambridge (born Feb. 14, 1717, London, Eng.—died Sept. 17, 1802, Twickenham, Middlesex [now Greater London]) was an English poet and essayist and author of the Scribleriad. Educated at Eton College and at St. John’s College, Oxford, the young Cambridge went into residence at Lincoln’s Inn in 1737. Four years later he married and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster, Gloucestershire. In 1751 he moved to Twickenham, where he entertained a...