Thomas Chatterton
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English poet and forger (1752-1770)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1752-11-20 ) 20 November 1752 , Bristol , England
- Died
- 24 August 1770 (1770-08-24) (aged 17), Holborn , London, England
- Pen name
- Thomas Rowley, Decimus
- Occupation
- Poet, forger
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Bristol
- Place of death
- Londres
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
- Thomas Chatterton wb.jpg
- Significant event
- posthumous birth
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- pseudonym
- Decimus
- Commons category
- Thomas Chatterton
- manner of death
- Suicide
- date of death
- 1770-01-01
- date of birth
- 1752-01-01
- name in native language
- Thomas Evengton
- Commons Creator page
- Thomas Chatterton
- ethnic group
- English people
- cause of death
- intoxication
- writing language
- English language
- P12749
- Betty Hutton
- depicted by
- The Death of Chatterton
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Thomas Chatterton, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet who committed suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was a studious child, publishing work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of a fictional 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, though he was denounced by Horace Walpole.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Chatterton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.