Writer. Chiefly remembered as the author of 'The Three Tours of Dr Syntax', a comic poem which satirised William Gilpin.
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William Combe
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William Gilpin
William Gilpin 1724 - 1804 These flats have been built on the site of Cheam S...
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St Pancras Basin
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Victoria & Albert Museum
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