Thomas Creech

Thomas Creech

Thomas Creech (1659–found dead 19 July 1700 [cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6661|title=Hermann J. Real, ‘Creech, Thomas (1659–1700)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004|accessdate=2008-07-23] ), translator, born at Blandford Forum, Dorset educated at Sherborne and Oxford, became Head Master of Sherborne School. He translated Lucretius in verse (1682), for which he received a Fellowship at Oxford, also Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics. It has been long thought that Mr. Creech hanged himself due to a disappointment in love; however, it is more likely that the suicide was caused by pecuniary difficulties and the culmination of life-long recurring depression.

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