Francis Coventry

Francis Coventry (1725 – 1754?) was an English cleric and novelist, best known for The History of Pompey the Little.

A native of Cambridgeshire, he was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1748 and M.A. 1752. He was appointed by his kinsman the Earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, and died of smallpox at Whitchurch.

Coventry was the author of:

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