Rev. Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright, credited with inventing the power-loom, was tutored by John Langhorne at the Wakefield Free School before entering University College Oxford in 1760 at the early age of fourteen. In 1764 he became Fellow of Magdalen College (M.A. 1766, D.D. 1806). Cartwright married an heiress, reviewed for the Monthly, and was rector of Brampton, Yorkshire, and Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire, and prebendary of Lincoln (1786). The poem Armine and Elvira reached a ninth edition, though Cartwright was better known for his mechanical inventions and agricultural experiments.

TEXT RECORDS:

1779The Prince of Peace.
1785Review of Spenser's Fairy Queen attempted in Blank Verse.

PUBLICATIONS:

Constantia, an Elegy to the memory of a lady, Mrs. Langhorne. 1768.
Armine and Elvira, a legendary tale. 1771.
Poems. 1773.
The Prince of Peace and other poems. 1779.
Sonnets to eminent men. 1783.
Poems, a new edition. 1786.
A memorial read to the Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce ... with an appendix containing letters from the late Sir William Jones. 1800.
A sermon preached ... after the interment of the Duke of Bedford. 1802.
On the means of extending the cultivation of corn. 2 vols, 1803.
Letters and sonnets, on moral, and other interesting subjects. 1807.
A sermon ... preached 1808.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Wakefield School
University College Oxford
Magdalen College Oxford
College Fellow
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Doctor of Divinity

clergyman
Prebendary of Lincoln
poet

The Monthly Review

Rev. George Crabbe
Rev. John Langhorne
Capel Lofft
Sir William Jones
Abraham Portal

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

Gentleman's Magazine 70 (1800) 972; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); obituary in Literary Chronicle 5 (29 November 1823) 765-66; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 93 (November 1823) 470-71; obituary in New Monthly Magazine NS 9 (December 1823); obituary in Monthly Magazine 56 (January 1824) 567-68; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Mary Strickland, A Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright (1843); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1897-93); Roger C. V. Hodge, Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S. (1953).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Edmund Cartwright:

1.	1771  Anonymous, "To the Author of Armine and Elvira" St. James's Chronicle (22 August 1771).
2.	1789  George Crabbe to Edmund Cartwright, 24 October 1789; Letters, ed. Faulkner (1985) 40.
3.	1800  Anonymous, in Gentleman's Magazine 70 (October 1800) 972 & n.
4.	1803  John Murray to Edmund Cartwright, 31 March 1803; Smiles, A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir of John Murray (1891) 1:33.
5.	1810  Alexander Chalmers, in Life of Langhorne, Works of the English Poets (1810) 16:407-08.
6.	1815  Edmund Cartwright, "Stanzas written by the late scientific Dr. Cartwright, on his seventy-second Birth-day" 1815; Morning Post (10 January 1824).
7.	1828  H. C., "On the late Rev. Edmund Cartwright, D.D. of Hillenden House, Kent" The Star (27 October 1828).
8.	1834  George Crabbe Jr., The Life of George Crabbe by his Son (1834; 1947) 117-18.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Edmund Cartwright:

1.	1792  Anonymous, "Biographical List of Living English Poets" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (November 1792) 1006.
2.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 56-57.
3.	1823  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 93 (November 1823) 470-71.
4.	1824  Anonymous, Obituary in Monthly Magazine 56 (January 1824) 567-68.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1776  Rev. Thomas Warton:   Edmund Cartwright, "To Mr. Warton. Written in the Year 1776" Cartwright, Sonnets to Eminent Men (1783) 5.
2.	1780  William Hayley:   Rev. Edmund Cartwright, "To William Hayley, Esq. written on a Blank Leaf of his Essay on History, 1780" Cartwright, Sonnets to Eminent Men (1783) 4.
3.	1780  Sir William Jones:   Edmund Cartwright, "To William Jones, Esq." St. James's Chronicle (22 August 1780).
4.	1781  Rev. Richard Hole:   Edmund Cartwright, in Review of Hole's Translation of Homer's Hymn to Ceres; The Monthly Review 65 (August 1781) 117.
5.	1782  William Cowper:   Edmund Cartwright, in Review of Cowper, Poems; The Monthly Review 67 (October 1782) 262-63.
6.	1783  Rev. Samuel Hayes:   Edmund Cartwright, Review of Hayes, Creation, a Poem; The Monthly Review 72 (June 1783) 467.
7.	1784  Anne Hughes:   Edmund Cartwright, Review of Hughes, Poems; The Monthly Review 71 (November 1784) 386.
8.	1785  Capel Lofft:   Edmund Cartwright, in Review of Lofft, First and Second Georgic, attempted in Blank Verse; The Monthly Review 72 (May 1785) 348.
9.	1815  Rev. Edmund Cartwright:   Edmund Cartwright, "Stanzas written by the late scientific Dr. Cartwright, on his seventy-second Birth-day" 1815; Morning Post (10 January 1824).