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Events on Friday 24 August 1770 1
1752 – 1770Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)Died 24 August 1770, aged 17Thomas Chatterton was an English poet who wrote acclaimed verse that he falsely attributed to a fictional 15th-century monk named Thomas Rowley. He died by poisoning in London at seventeen, likely by suicide, and was later mythologised by Romantic writers as the archetype of the doomed young genius. His story inspired works by Wordsworth, Keats, and the painter Henry Wallis.