Thomas James Mathias

Thomas James Mathias, FRS (1754? - August 1835) was a British satirist and scholar.

Mathias was educated in Kingston upon Thames and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] He held some minor appointments in the royal household (sub-treasurer, 1782 and treasurer).

He was an accomplished Italian scholar, and translated various English works into Italian, such as Canzoni e prose toscane, and vice versa. He also produced a fine edition of the work of Thomas Gray, on which he lost heavily. His chief work was The Pursuits of Literature (1794), an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries that went through 16 editions, but is now almost forgotten.

He died in Naples, Italy

References

^ Mathias, Thomas James in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

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