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Sir Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719) was a English physician and poet, born at Bolam in the county of Durham, and educated at Cambridge, he settled as a physician in
London, where he soon acquired a large practice. He was a zealous Whig,
the friend of Addison and, though of different political views, of Pope,
and he ended his career as physician to George I., by whom he was knighted in 1714. He is remembered as the author of The Dispensary, a satire, which had great popularity in its day, and of Claremont, a
descriptive poem. He also edited a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, to
which Addison, Pope, and others contributed. Perhaps, however, the
circumstance most honourable to him is his intervention to procure an
honourable burial for Dryden, over whose remains he pronounced a eulogy.
For a while, he owned the manor at Edgcott.
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