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Who were Henry Fielding’s parents?

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Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth — Henry Fielding Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's *Works* (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth

Henry Fielding’s father was Colonel Edmund Fielding, who served with distinction under the Duke of Marlborough. His mother was a daughter of Sir Henry Gould, a judge of the Queen’s Bench.1