Corn-Law Rhymer

Corn-Law Rhymer
Ebenezer Elliott

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  • CORN-LAW RHYMER, THE —    , EBENEZER ELLIOTT (q.v. ELLIOTT, EBENEZER) who, in a volume of poems, denounced the corn laws and contributed to their abolition …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Ebenezer Elliott — (17 March 1781 – 1 December 1849) was an English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer. Contents 1 Early life …   Wikipedia

  • Elliott, Ebenezer — (1781 1849)     The Corn Law Rhymer was born at the New Foundry, Masborough, parish of Rotherham, Yorkshire. His forebears had the reputation of being border raiders, stealing from both the English and the Scots. When seventeen he wrote his first …   British and Irish poets

  • Ebenezer Elliott — (* 17. März 1781 in Masborough, Yorkshire; † 1. Dezember 1849 in Houghton bei Barnsley) war ein englischer Lyriker. Elliott wurde in Masborough, Yorkshire, geboren. Sein Vater betrieb eine Eisenhandlung und war ein fanatischer Calvinist …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Elliot, Ebenezer — (1781 1849)    Poet, b. at Masborough, Yorkshire, in his youth worked in an iron foundry, and in 1821 took up the same business on his own account with success. He is best known by his poems on behalf of the poor and oppressed, and especially for …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • ELLIOTT, EBENEZER —    poet, known popularly as the Corn Law Rhymer, born in Rotherham parish, Yorkshire; an active worker in iron; devoted his leisure to poetic composition; proved a man that could handle both pen and hammer like a man; wrote the Corn Law Rhymes… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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