Daniel Bellamy, the elder
Daniel Bellamy, the elder (born 1687) was an English miscellaneous writer. The son of Daniel Bellamy, scrivener of London, he was born in the parish of , Ironmonger's Lane, on 25 December 1687. He entered Merchant Taylors' School on 12 March 1702, and matriculated as a commoner of St. John's College, Oxford, on 4 March 1706. In consequence of a reverse of fortune he was forced to leave Oxford without taking a degree in 1709, and became a conveyancer's clerk.[1]
Works[]
He was the author of:[1]
- The Lord Mornay du Plessis Marly's Thoughts on the Trinity (1721).
- The Cambro-Britannic Engineer; or, The Original mouse-trapp-maker: a mock-heroic-poem in commemoration of St David's Day: [A Translation of the 'Muscipula' of Edward Holdsworth] (1722).
- Love Triumphant; or, The Rival Goddesses: A pastoral opera ... To which are added, some poems and translations never before published (1722).
- The Young Ladies Miscellany; or, Youth's innocent and rational amusement, To which is prefixed, a short essay on the art of pronunciation, and the great advantage arising from an early practice of it in publick (1723; 2nd edition, 1726).
- Moral Tales adapted from Fénelon (1729).
- The Generous Mahometan [a novel] (1730).
- Phædri Fabulæ Selectæ ... Fifty ... Fables of Phædrus, in Latin, French and English (1734).
- The Christian Schoolmaster (1736).
He also began a translation of Bernard Picart's Ceremonies. In some other works he was associated with his son Daniel Bellamy, the younger.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
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- English male non-fiction writers
- 1687 births
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- English translators
- Writers from London
- 18th-century deaths
- 18th-century British translators