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Sir Samuel Garth (
1661 -
1719) was an
English physician and
poet.
Garth was born in
Bolam in
County Durham and educated at the
University of Cambridge. He settled as a physician in
London and soon acquired a large practice. He was a zealous
Whig, the friend of
Addison and, though of different political views, of
Pope. He ended his career as physician to
George I, who knighted home in
1714.
He is remembered as the author of
The Dispensary, a satire which had great popularity in its day, and of
Claremont, a descriptive poem. He also edited a translation of
Ovid's
Metamorphoses, to which Addison, Pope, and others contributed. His intervention ensured an honourable burial for
John Dryden and he pronounced a eulogy at the funeral in
Westminster Abbey.
For a while, he owned the
manor of
Edgcott in
Buckinghamshire.
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