The son of John Hanbury, Charles Hanbury Williams studied at Eton and was M.P. for Monmouthshire (1734-47), Leominster (1754-59), and paymaster of marine forces (1739-42). A Court Whig, he was a friend of Henry Fielding who composed satirical verses and contributed to Dodsley's Collection of Poems and The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. He died by suicide in November 1759.
TEXT RECORDS:
1740 ca.To Mrs. Bindon at Bath.
PUBLICATIONS:
An ode to the Duke of Argyle. 1740.
A dialogue between G[iles] E[arl]e and B[ubb] D[oddingto]n. 1741.
The country girl: an ode. 1742.
A new ode to a great number of great men newly made. 1742.
An ode humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable W[illiam Pulteney] E[arl] of B[ath]. 1742.
An epistle to the Right Honourable William Pultney. 1742.
The old coachman: a new ballad. 1742.
Letter to Mr Dodsley, bookseller in Pall Mall. 1743.
The wife and the nurse: a new ballad. 1743.
S[andy]s and J[ekyl]l: a new ballad. 1743.
Eog S—y's budget open'd. 1743.
Plain thoughts in plain language: a new ballad. 1743.
Solomon's porch S—s and W—r. 1743.
Peter and my Lord Quidam. 1743.
An ode from the Earl of Bath to ambition. nd.
Old England's Te deum. nd.
Place book for the year seventeen-hundred forty-five: a new ballad. 1745.
An ode to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lonsdale. 1745.
The heroes: a new ballad. 1745.
An ode imitated from ode xi, book 2d of Horace. 1745.
Sir C.H.W. to Edward Hussey esq. 1746.
A new ballad on Lord Doneraile's altering his chapel at Grove into a kitchen. 1746.
An ode to the Honourable Henry Fox on the marriage of the Duchess of Manchester to Hussey esq. 1746.
An ode addressed to the author of the Conquered Duchess. 1746.
Hussey to Sir C.H.W—s: or the rural reflections of a Welch poet. 1746.
An ode to the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz esq. 1746.
The unembarrassed countenance: a new ballad. 1746.
Tar water: a ballad inscribed to the Rt. Hon Philip Earl of Chesterfield. 1747.
A collection of poems. 1763, 1780.
Works [notes by Horace Walpole]. 3 vols, 1822.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Eton College
Member of Parliament
diplomat
poet
essayist
The World
The Poetical Magazine
Richard Owen Cambridge
Henry Fielding
George Lyttelton
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Horace Walpole
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
Robert Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1748-58); Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789-97); "Account of Charles Hanbury Williams" European Magazine 40 (September 1801) 176-79; Peter L. Courtier, ed., Lyre of Love (1806); Robert Southey, Specimens of Later English Poets (1807); Nathan Drake, Essays illustrative of the Rambler (1810); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); "Sir Charles Hanbury Williams's Works" Quarterly Review 28 (October 1822); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Edward S. Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians (1850); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature 3rd ed. (1876); W. Coxe, Herefordshire Biographies (1890); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Eton College Register, 1698-1752 (1927); Mrs Henry L. Brooke, The Life of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Poet, Wit, and Diplomat (1928); D. B. Horn, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and European Diplomacy, 1747-1758 (1930); Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (1942); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995); Michael F. Suarez, ed., Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1997).
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