WILLIAM (1714-1763).-Poet, _s._ of Thomas S., owner of a small estate at Hales Owen, Shropshire. At this place, called the Leasowes, the poet was _b._ In 1732 he went to Oxf. On his father's death he retired to the Leasowes where he passed his time, and ran through his means in transforming it into a marvel of landscape gardening, visited