Mousley, William Morris, b 1828 (clergyman and poet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: b 1828
Biography
Born 5 August 1828, Coventry. Admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 15 May 1846; BA 1851; M.A. 1854. Curate of Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, 1852-5. Disappears from Clergy List, 1857.
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Item
William Morris Mousley: 'A legend of Ashby Vale' (poem), [1846-1850]
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/212
Scope and Contents
Two page manuscript poem, including the ballad 'Geraldine's song'. It was published by Mousley in his 'Poems, lyric and heroic' (1850), where it is described as having been written when an undergraduate ‘during some of the leisure hours of a college course’.
Dates:
[1846-1850]
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