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Mr. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, England, on October 23, 1844. He was a son of John Thomas and Harriet Elizabeth Affleck Bridges.
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Mr. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, England, on October 23, 1844. He was a son of John Thomas and Harriet Elizabeth Affleck Bridges.
After being educated at Eton College (1854-1863) and then Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from which he received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1867, he studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (Bachelor of Medicine, 1874), London, and later served on the staffs of various London hospitals. In 1882, however, he abandoned medicine and thereafter devoted himself to poetry.
Robert Bridges began as house physician, later became casualty physician at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, England. Later assistant physician at Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and physician at Great Northern Hospital, Holloway. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research.
However, Mr. Bridges' literary work started long before his retirement, his first collection of poems having been published in 1873. In 1884 he married Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A., and spent the rest of his life in rural seclusion, first at Yattendon, then at Boars Hill, Berkshire, where he died.
He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1913, the only medical graduate to have held the office.
As a poet Robert Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its restraint, purity, precision and delicacy yet strength of expression. It embodies a distinct theory of prosody. Mr. Bridges' faith underpinned much of his work.
Mr. Bridges' poetry was privately printed in the first instance, and was slow in making its way beyond a comparatively small circle of his admirers. His best work is to be found in his Shorter Poems (1890), and a complete edition (to date) of his Poetical Works (6 vols.) was published in 1898-1905.
Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Robert Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his death with The Testament of Beauty. However, his verse evoked response in many great British composers of the time. Among those to set his poems to music were Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst and later Gerald Finzi.
He died on 21 April, 1930.
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Robert Bridges married Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the famous architect Alfred A. Waterhouse, on September 3, 1884. They had three children: Elizabeth, Margaret, Edward.
In 1902 Mr. Bridges’ wife and daughter Margaret became seriously ill, and he decided to move from Yattendon to a healthier climate. The family lived in several temporary homes, spent a year in Switzerland, and finally settled again in England at Chilswell House, which Mr. Bridges had designed and which was built on Boar’s Hill overlooking Oxford University. Robert Bridges lived there until his death in 1930.