John Upton (1707 - 1760)

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Priest, editor of Arrian’s ‘Epictetus’ (1739-41) and Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ (1758), and author of critical observations on Shakespear and Ben Jonson. Lived successively in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Son of schoolmaster James Upton (1671-1749).

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Born: 1707

Died: 1760

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