Wrangham, Francis, Rev., FRS (M)

b. 11 June 1769. d. 27 December 1842. Nationality: English.
Translator, editor, poet, and Church of England clergyman. Pseudonym: “X.” Born in Yorkshire. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Married twic,: Agnes Creyke on 7 April 1799 and Dorothy Cayley on 2 July 1801. Archdeacon of Cleveland (1820-28) and East Riding (1828-40). Author of several volumes of poetry including *The Raising of Jaïrus’ Daughter* (1804) and compositions of translations, including *A Few Sonnets Attempted from Petrarch in Early Life* (1817). Acquainted with William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Egerton Brydges, and Mary Russell Mitford. Member of the Bannatyne and Roxburghe clubs and was a book collector throughout his life. Biographical information: *ODNB*. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Echo, in two Poetical Dialogues 1818-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8201
The First of May 1818-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8221
Verses 1818-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8280
Ad Percevallum e Granta exiturum, A. D. 1783 1818-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8283
Lines 1818-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8275
Destruction of Babylon 1820-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8443
Book Fourth, Ode Second 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8488
Book First, Ode Ninth 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8485
Book First, Ode Thirty-Eighth 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8486
Book III. Ode 3 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8537
Book III. Ode 9 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8541
Book III. Ode 13 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8542
Book III. Ode 25 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8547
Book III. Ode 26 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8548
Book III. Ode 5 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8538
Book III. Ode 15 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8544
Book III. Ode 27 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8549
Book III. Ode 8 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8539
Book III. Ode 23 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8545
Book III. Ode 29 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8551
L’Esprit du Peuple 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9509
“As by her filial circle first we see” 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9538
“Sweet nursling of Aurora’s tears” 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9508
Sonnet 1824-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10101
To Lady Holland on the Snuff-Box Bequeathed to Her by Buonaparte 1824-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet, Translator 10103
Duty and Pleasure 1824-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet, Translator 10104
The Return. Dulce Domum 1826-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10559
Lines, Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Edward William Barnard 1828-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10769
Extracts from Buchanan’s Epithalamium, on the Marriage of Francis of Valois and Mary Stuart 1829-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10313
Ode on the First of May 1840-07-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 4408