Person    | Male  Born 25/3/1742  Died 19/6/1823

William Combe

Categories: Literature

Writer. Chiefly remembered as the author of 'The Three Tours of Dr Syntax', a comic poem which satirised William Gilpin

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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William Combe

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