Francis Wrangham

He attended Hull Grammar School and took honours at Cambridge, studying first at Magdalene College and afterwards at Trinity Hall.

In England at that time, it was common for well-connected or conspicuously talented clerics to accumulate church positions, hiring curates to do the actual work.

Wrangham's success resulted from his own talent and from an early position as tutor to the brother of the Duke of Manchester, and the lifelong friendship and patronage of the ducal family.

He opposed deists, dissenters, and Unitarians, and supported foreign missions, writing one book on methods for converting India to Christianity.

[3] The poem includes a strong anti-slavery statement: 157: And thou bethink thee, Albion, ere too late, 158: Queen of the isles and mart of distant worlds, 159: That thou like Tyre (with hands as deep in blood, 160: Warm from the veins of Africa, and wealth 161: By arts more vile and darker guilt acquir'd) 162: Shalt meet an equal doom.

The day will rise...[4] Other Wrangham, prize-winning poems well known at the time, include 'The Holy Land', 'Sufferings of the Primitive Martyrs', 'Joseph Made Known to his Brethren', and 'The Destruction of Babylon.'