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| | Richard Jago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | From there, he went up to University College, Oxford, in 1732, taking his degree in 1736. |
 | | In 1737, Jago was ordained to the curacy of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, becoming rector in 1754; and, although he subsequently received other preferments, Snitterfield remained his favorite residence and it was there that he would die at the age of 66. |
 | | Jago's best-known poem, The Blackbirds, was first printed in Hawkesworths Adventurer (No. 37, March 13, 1753), and was generally attributed to Gilbert West, but Jago published it in his own name, with other poems, in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol. |
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