wickham-brook

Updated: May 27, 2025

An interval of a few months was spent at home, during which he assisted his father at the office on Slaughden Quay, and in the year 1768, when he was still under fourteen years of age, a post was found for him in the house of a surgeon at Wickham-Brook, near Bury St. Edmunds.

Alfred Ainger - English Men of Letters: Crabbe