Henry Purdon
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Life 1729-1767; b. Co. Limerick, son of a clergyman and namesake; ed. TCD, Goldsmiths friend; dissipated fortune and enlisted; London scribbler in the newspapers and book-sellers hack, translating Voltaires The Henriade, which appeared in British Ladies Mag., for Ralph Griffins [who first employed Goldsmith]; shared in Goldsmiths Life of Voltaire; had to apologise for letter to Garrick attacking Mossop and others; Goldsmiths epitaph in Wednesday Club preserved his memory. ODNB PI.
References Dictionary of National Biography calls him a booksellers hack, remembered for Goldsmiths epitaph on him for the Wednesday Club.
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