Moultrie

Moultrie, JOHN, minor poet, born in London in 1799, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, took orders, and was presented in 1828 to the rectory of Rugby, where he enjoyed the friendship of Arnold. He died in 1874. Some little poems of deep tenderness in My Brother's Grave (1837), and The Dream of Life (1843), have kept his name from being quite forgotten; neither the praises of Wordsworth nor Praed could keep Godiva alive. There is a Memoir by Derwent Coleridge prefixed to an edition of his Poems (1876).