280-281; birth, education, his poem of The Last Day, Queen Anne his godmother, 278; tragedies of Busiris and The Revenge, 278; Duke of Wharton his patron, 278; his satires, The Universal Passion, 279; takes Orders at 47, and becomes chaplain to George II., ib.; marries Lady Elizabeth Leigh, ib.; his elaborate and moral poem The Complaint, or Night Thoughts, ib.; Clerk of the Closet to Princess Dowager, ib.; death at Welwyn, ib.; shortcom- ings of character, 280; epigram on Voltaire, 281; his rolling iambics, 283; his influence, 283