Edward Hamley (1764 (baptised) – 1834) was an English clergyman and poet.

Life

He was the elder son of the Rev. Thomas Hamley of St. Columb,

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, who was buried at

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11 June 1766, and was baptised at St. Columb Major 25 Oct. 1764. He matriculated from

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, 6 November 1783, and took his

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degree in 1791. He was elected a fellow of his college 5 November 1785, and then spent some time in Italy. While residing in the

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, in 1795, he published a volume entitled ''Poems of Various Kinds,'' 1795. At this period he was in correspondence with Dr.

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, by whom he was called "the learned Mr. Hamley of New College". In 1795 he also printed anonymously ''Translations, chiefly from the Italian of Petrarch and Metastasio.'' In the same year he wrote seventeen

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s, which were afterwards inserted in the ''Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry,'' at intervals between 1805 and 1809. He became rector of

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, in 1805, and of Stanton St. John,

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, in 1806, which benefices he held to his death. He died at Stanton 7 December 1834.

References

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