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Martin Farquhar Tupper

1810–89

Poet and writer. BA, Oxford (Christ Church), 1832. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1835. Published a book of aphorisms, Proverbial philosophy (1838), which went through numerous editions and translations in most European languages.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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