Background
The son of Elias Norgate, a surgeon, and Deborah, daughter of Alderman Thomas Starling, he was born at Norwich, on 20 August 1772.
The son of Elias Norgate, a surgeon, and Deborah, daughter of Alderman Thomas Starling, he was born at Norwich, on 20 August 1772.
From 1780 to 1788 he attended Norwich Grammar School, under Samuel Parr as headmaster until 1785.
In 1789 he was sent to Hackney New College, and then entered at Lincoln"s Inn. Although he kept his terms there, he gave up on a legal career, and returned to Norwich without plans. Norgate became involved in periodical writing, through a number of personal contacts.
In 1829 he founded the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society.
Norgate died at Hetherset, 7 July 1859, in his 87th year. Norgate"s eldest son Elias assisted him as editor, and with the Horticultural Society.
He was curate successively of Briningham, of Cley-next-the-Sea, and of Banningham, all in Norfolk, and was collated rector of Sparham in 1840. He died there on 25 November 1893.
He was the author of three volumes of blank-verse translations of the Homeric poems: Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse, 1863.
The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863. And The Iliad, 1864.