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'''Charles Blake''' (1664 – 22 November 1730) was an English divine and poet.
==Biography==
Blake was was born at [[Reading, Berkshire]], being the son of John Blake, ‘gent.,’ of that town. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and [[St. John’s College, Oxford]], of which he was scholar and afterwards fellow (B.A. 1683, M.A. 1687–8, D.D. 1696). He was domestic chaplain to Sir [[Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet|William Dawes]], afterwards bishop of Chester and archbishop of York, who was his close friend. Among his preferments were the rectory of St. Sepulchre’s, London, of Wheldlake in Yorkshire, and of St. Mary's, Hull, and he was successively a prebendary of Chester, a prebendary of York (1716), and archdeacon of York (1720), He died 22 November 1730. He published a small collection of Latin verses, consisting of a translation into Latin of the poem of [[Musaeus Grammaticus|Musæus]] on [[Hero and Leander]], and of part of the fifth book of [[John Milton]]’s ‘[[Paradise Lost]];’ and two original poems, one called ‘Hibernia Plorans,’ written in 1689, the year of the siege of Londonderry, deploring Ireland's woes, in the style of Virgil's Eclogues, and the other an elegy on the death, in 1688, of [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick, the Great Elector of Brandenburg]]. These were all published together in a little sixpenny pamphlet, under the title of ‘Lusus Amatorius, sive Musæi de Herone et Leandro carmen; cui accedunt Tres Nugæ Poeticæ,’ at London in 1693.
==References==
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[[Category:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Fellows of St John's College, Oxford]]
Okumaya devam et...
{{Short description|English divine and poet}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Charles Blake
|image=
|image_size=
|caption=
|birth_date=1664
|birth_place=[[Reading, Berkshire]]
|death_date=22 November 1730
|death_place=
|nationality=English
|occupation=Divine and poet
|known_for=
}}
'''Charles Blake''' (1664 – 22 November 1730) was an English divine and poet.
==Biography==
Blake was was born at [[Reading, Berkshire]], being the son of John Blake, ‘gent.,’ of that town. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and [[St. John’s College, Oxford]], of which he was scholar and afterwards fellow (B.A. 1683, M.A. 1687–8, D.D. 1696). He was domestic chaplain to Sir [[Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet|William Dawes]], afterwards bishop of Chester and archbishop of York, who was his close friend. Among his preferments were the rectory of St. Sepulchre’s, London, of Wheldlake in Yorkshire, and of St. Mary's, Hull, and he was successively a prebendary of Chester, a prebendary of York (1716), and archdeacon of York (1720), He died 22 November 1730. He published a small collection of Latin verses, consisting of a translation into Latin of the poem of [[Musaeus Grammaticus|Musæus]] on [[Hero and Leander]], and of part of the fifth book of [[John Milton]]’s ‘[[Paradise Lost]];’ and two original poems, one called ‘Hibernia Plorans,’ written in 1689, the year of the siege of Londonderry, deploring Ireland's woes, in the style of Virgil's Eclogues, and the other an elegy on the death, in 1688, of [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick, the Great Elector of Brandenburg]]. These were all published together in a little sixpenny pamphlet, under the title of ‘Lusus Amatorius, sive Musæi de Herone et Leandro carmen; cui accedunt Tres Nugæ Poeticæ,’ at London in 1693.
==References==
{{DNB|wstitle=Blake, Charles|first=Ronald|last=Bayne|authorlink=Ronald Bayne|volume=05}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blake, Charles}}
[[Category:1664 births]]
[[Category:1730 deaths]]
[[Category:17th-century English clergy]]
[[Category:18th-century English clergy]]
[[Category:18th-century English poets]]
[[Category
eople from Reading, Berkshire]][[Category:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Fellows of St John's College, Oxford]]
Okumaya devam et...