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Note: Add a line or two on Resurrection of Jesus Christ and translations of Pindar.


[edit] Works

  • Stowe, the gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, Lord Viscount Cobham (1732)
  • A canto of the Fairy Queen. Written by Spenser (1739)
  • The institution of the order of the garter. A dramatick poem (1742)
  • Observations on the history and evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1747)
  • The odes of Pindar, with several other pieces translated (1749)
  • Education: a poem in two cantos. (1751)
  • Two orations (1759) (translation of Thucydides)
  • The oration of Plato (1768) (translation of Thucydides)

Note: Some publication dates are posthumous.

[edit] Biog

The son of a minister, West was educated at Winchester, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; his father intended a career in the Church for him. [1] [2] However, he was persuaded by his uncle, Lord Cobham to take a commission in the army[2] but soon left to work under Lord Townshend, a prominent Whig. [1] West left this position when it became clear that he had no prospect of advancement in such a career.[2]

West married a Miss Bartlett with whom he lived in Wickham in Kent and was appointed Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital which provided him a modest income.[2] Only late in his life, did West achieve a measure of financial success when he was appointed to a clerkship of the Privy Council in 1752. He died four years later. [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Johnson, Samuel (1781). Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets vol. 3, 328-33. 
  2. ^ a b c d Jones, Stephen (1812). Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse vol. 1, 741-42.