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Wilmot, John

Related Category: English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

see Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of.

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Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl Of - 1647–80, English poet and courtier, b. Ditchley, Oxfordshire. Most notorious and dissolute of the Restoration rakes, he lost the favor of Charles II on several occasions because of his recklessne...