JOHN (1795-1821).-Poet, _s._ of the chief servant at an inn in London, who _m._ his master's _dau._, and _d._ a man of some substance. He was sent to a school at Enfield, and having meanwhile become an orphan, was in 1810 apprenticed to a surgeon at Edmonton. In 1815 he went to London to walk the hospitals. He was not, however, at all enth