Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
James Hurdis

Born: 1763
Died: 1801 (aged 38)
Bio: James Hurdis was an English clergyman and a poet, born in Bishopstone, East Sussex. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College.
Known for:
- The village curate
- The Favourite Village
- Poems (1796)