Alexander Schomberg (poet)

Alexander Crowcher Schomberg (1756–1792) was an English poet and writer on jurisprudence.

Life

The son of Ralph Schomberg of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, he was born there on 6 July 1756. From Southampton School he was admitted a scholar of Winchester School in 1770. He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford, and on 9 May 1775, was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1776. He graduated B.A. on 20 January 1779, and commenced M.A. on 9 November 1781. He became a probationer fellow of Magdalen College in 1782, and senior dean of arts in 1791.[1]

In later life Schomberg studied political economy, falling ill. The young Robert Southey attended him at Bath, Somerset. He died there on 6 April 1792, and was buried in Bath Abbey. He was the earliest patron of William Crotch the composer.[1]

Works

Schomberg's works were:[1]

  • Bagley; a descriptive Poem; with the Annotations of Scriblerus Secundus: To which are prefixed, by the same, Prolegomena on the Poetry of the present age,’ Oxford, 1777. The authorship has also been ascribed to Thomas Burgess.[2]
  • Ode on the present state of English Poetry by "Cornelius Scriblerus Nothus", with "a translation of a fragment of Simonides", Greek and English, Oxford, 1779.
  • An historical and chronological View of Roman Law. With Notes and Illustrations, Oxford, 1785; 2nd edit. Oxford, 1857; translated into French by A. M. H. Boulard, 2nd edit. Paris, 1808.
  • A Treatise on the Maritime Laws of Rhodes, Oxford, 1786.
  • Historical and Political Remarks on the Tariff of the Commercial Treaty with France, 1787.
  • Present State of Trade and Manufactures in France (partly printed, unpublished).

At age 13 Schomberg wrote a tragedy in collaboration with Herbert Croft. He contributed to the volumes of Anna Miller, and to the periodical Olla Podrida, edited by Thomas Monro (1788).[1]

Notes
  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Schomberg, Alexander Crowcher" . Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous Literature, i. 210.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Schomberg, Alexander Crowcher". Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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