Background
Richard Jago was born on October 1, 1715; the third son of Richard Jago, rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, England.
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Richard Jago was born on October 1, 1715; the third son of Richard Jago, rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, England.
He went up to University College, Oxford, in 1732, and took his degree in 1736.
In 1737 Richard was ordained to the curacy of Snitterfield, Warwickshire. Jago's best- known poem, The Blackbirds, was first printed on March 13, 1753 in Hawkesworth's Adventurerin. He became rector in 1754; and, although he subsequently received other preferments, Snitterfield remained his favourite residence. The two separate sermons were published in 1755. In 1767 appeared a topographical poem, Edge Hill, or the Rural Prospect delineated and moralized. Labour and Genius, a Fable were published in 1768.
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He was twice married.