Francis Noel Clarke Mundy

Francis Noel Clark Mundy studied under Joseph Warton at Winchester College before entering New College Oxford in 1757 (created M.A. 1761). He afterwards resided on his estate at Markeaton, Derbyshire and was a member of the Litchfield coterie of poets. Anna Seward contributed to his Needwood Forest (1776) and pleaded with the author to make this privately printed volume available to the public.

TEXT RECORDS:

1758Winter. Begun at Winchester School. 1757.
1765Ode to Health. Written at Buxton in Derbyshire. 1765.
1765The Harehunter. A Burlesque Imitation of various Parts of Milton's L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.
1776Needwood Forest.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poems. 1768.
Needwood forest. 1776.
The fall of Needwood. (My grand climacteric). 1808.
Needwood Forest, and the Fall of Needwood, with other poems. 1830.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Winchester College
New College Oxford
Master of Arts

poet

Brooke Boothby
Dr. Erasmus Darwin
William Hayley
Sir Walter Scott
Anna Seward
Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens
Rev. Joseph Warton

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; not NCBEL.

"Poetical Lines in a Music-Bill" Gentleman's Magazine 52 (April 1782) 173; "Living English Poets" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (June 1792) 505; Poetical Register for 1805 (1807), 1806-07 (1811), 1808-09 (1812); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 86 (April 1816) 293; "Tribute to F. N. C. Mundy" Gentleman's Magazine 86 (May 1816) 387-90; John Bowyer Nichols, "F. N. C. Mundy Esq." Gentleman's Magazine 86 (July 1816) 8; "Proposed Memorial for Mundy" Monthly Magazine 42 (September 1816) 184; Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); C. R. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839 (1992).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Francis Noel Clarke Mundy:

1.	1765  Joseph Warton to Thomas Warton, 3 June 1765; Thomas Warton, Correspondence, ed. Fairer (1995) 188.
2.	1775  Edwin, "Stanzas to F. Mundy, Esq. occasioned by the persual of his beautiful Elegies" Westminster Magazine 3 (March 1775) 160.
3.	1776  Brooke Boothby, in Mundy, Needwood Forest (1776) 49.
4.	1781  Anonymous, "To F. N. C. M—d—y, of M—n in Derbyshire" Gentleman's Magazine 51 (December 1781) 582.
5.	1790 ca.  Erasmus Darwin Junior, "Lines, on Mr. Mundy's Needwood Forest" 1790 ca.; Poetical Register for 1806-07 (1811) 206-08.
6.	1796  Anna Seward to Lady Eleanor Butler, 28 February 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:167-70.
7.	1799  Anna Seward to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, 6 May 1799; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:221-25.
8.	1800  Erasmus Darwin, "Address to the Swilcar Oak" European Magazine 37 (March 1800) 226.
9.	1800  Anna Seward, "Rural Coronation. Inscribed to Mr. Mundy, on reading his Poem on Needwood Forest" European Magazine 37 (March 1800) 226.
10.	1813  Maria Edgeworth to Honora Edgeworth, 25 April 1813; Life and Letters, ed. Hare (1895) 1:208.
11.	1816  C. A. H., "To the Memory of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Esq." Gentleman's Magazine 86 (August 1816) 158.
12.	1821  John Edwards, in Tour of the Dove (1821; 1825) 14, 78-80n.
13.	1823  William Hayley, in Memoirs of William Hayley (1823) 1:339-40.
14.	1828  John Bowyer Nichols, in Joseph Cradock, Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs (1828) 4:205-06.
15.	1834  Samuel Egerton Brydges, in Autobiography (1834) 1:56-57.
16.	1889  Mary Howitt, in An Autobiography (1889) 1:38.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Francis Noel Clarke Mundy:

1.	1792  Anonymous, "Biographical List of Living English Poets" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (June 1792) 505.
2.	1816  A. Z., "F. N. C. Mundy" Gentleman's Magazine 86 (April 1816) 293.
3.	1816  John Bowyer Nichols, in Gentleman's Magazine 86 (July 1816) 8.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1787  Anna Seward:   Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, "Verses written after reading Miss Seward's Ode to Lord Heathfield, and hearing that he had paid her a Visit" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (7 December 1787).
2.	1792  Dr. Erasmus Darwin:   Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, "Address to the River Derwent, on whose Banks the Author of the Botanic Garden resides" 1792; Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1799) xii-xiii.
3.	1799  Anna Seward:   Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, "On Miss Seward's Sonnets, published in 1799" European Magazine 36 (July 1799) 47.