FRANCIS FAWKES BIOGRAPHY
FRANCIS FAWKES BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
FAWKES, FRANCIS (1721-1777). —Poet and translator, born near Doncaster, and ed. at Camb., after which he took orders. He translated Anacreon, Sappho, and other classics, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, The Brown Jug , and of two poems, Bramham Park and Partridge Shooting .