English poet
Alexander Radcliffe (c. 1653 – in or before 1696) was an English poet.
Life.
He was probably born in the Southern Netherlands about 1653, the only son and heir of the exiled royalist Alexander Radcliffe (1633–1682), later of Hampstead, Middlesex. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 12 November 1669. He was not called to the bar, but seems to have deserted the legal profession for the army, in which he had attained the rank of captain by 1696.
Works.
He was a disciple of the Earl of Rochester in verse, and, according to George Thorn-Drury, "rivalled his master in ribaldry". He published:
References.
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Bibliography.
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