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Most evenings, around 10pm, I wander up the hill to my local pub for a quiet pint and a chat. The pub is named after former resident Sir Richard Steele. Described as a politician, playwright and essayist, Sir Richard Steele has now been outed as the World’s first blogger.

I just nipped to the pub (for research purposes ;-)) and jotted this down from one of the many clippings on the wall:

Sir Richard Steele

Lived in the reigns of Charles II,
James II, William IV, Anne,
George I and George II.

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Had a country cottage
near this spot when
Hampstead was a leafy village.

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Born in Dublin – 1672
Died at Carmarthen – 1729.

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Father an English Attorney;
Mother Irish.

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Educated at Charterhouse,
London, and Merton College, Oxford.

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Twice married – a widow
owner of estates in Barbados,
who died in 1706 and a lady from
Wales who died in 1718.
Had four children.

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Became Captain in The Horse Guards,
and held sundry official posts.
Knighted in 1715.

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Politician, Playwright
and literary journalist, best known for
work with Joseph Addison in
“The Spectator”

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Spendthrift, but generous,
honest, and manly.