Vincent Bourne

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Vincent Bourne, familiarly known as Vinny Bourne (1695, Westminster – December 2, 1747) was an English classical scholar.

Life

He was the son of Andrew Bourne of Westminster. In 1710 he became a scholar at Westminster School, and in 1714 entered Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1717, and obtained a fellowship three years later.^[1] Of his later life little is known: for most of it he was an usher at Westminster school.

Works

During his lifetime he published three editions of his Latin poems, and in 1772 there appeared a quarto volume containing all Bourne's pieces, but also some that did not belong to him.

The Latin poems are, a number of them, translations of English poems. Cowper, an old pupil of Bourne's, James Beattie, and Charles Lamb, praised of his power of Latin versification.

An edition (1840) of his Poemata has a memoir by John Mitford.

References

↑ "Bourne, Vincent (BN714V)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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