christ's-college

Updated: May 2, 2025

In his youth he was sent to Westminster-school, and at the age of eighteen, he was entered student of Christ's-college in Oxford . Being an industrious scholar, says Langbaine, he arrived to be a good poet, a skilful orator, and an excellent preacher.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume I.