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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
The English author Henry Fielding died in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 8, 1754. He had traveled to the city earlier that year in an attempt to improve his failing health, a journey he documented in his work The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Following his death, he was buried in the British cemetery in Lisbon.12