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My uncle [mother's brother] wrote rather twee books of memoirs in the period between the two World Wars. They'd be deeply embarrassing to read today. In the 19th century my mother's family were involved with the Pre-Raphaelites, and a direct ancestor of mine was Lady Byron's lawyer, who advised her to leave the poet because of her husband's affair with his half-sister. A much earlier ancestor on my mother's side was chaplain to Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford, who wrote the poem 'Farewell Rewards and Fairies'. In his 'Brief Lives' Aubrey describes them getting drunk together in the cellars of Christchurch, Oxford.

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Richard Corbet

Richard Corbet

Born: 1582
Died: July 28, 1635 (aged 53)

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