[5] Smith's well-read daughter Utrecia later formed part of his life, a relationship he broke off before her death in 1743.

He went to London to study medicine, attended the lectures of Dr Frank Nicholls on anatomy, but fell ill.[1][7] His brother Charles Caspar Graves, on the other hand, was for a time close to the Wesleys.

After resigning this charge, he made a tour in the north, and at Scarborough met a distant relative, Samuel Knight, Archdeacon of Berkshire.

The parsonage was out of repair, so that he lived in the house of a gentleman farmer, Mr Bartholomew of Dunworth, whose daughter he married.

Through the interest of Sir Edward Harvey of Langley, near Uxbridge, he was presented in 1748 by William Skrine as rector of Claverton, near Bath, Somerset.

[7] Ralph Allen obtained for Graves in 1763 the adjoining vicarage of Kilmersdon, and also found him an appointment as chaplain to Mary Townshend, Countess Chatham.

He was a Whig in politics, who mixed widely in society, was a frequent guest of Allen or the Warburtons at Prior Park, and "contributed to the vase", taking part in the literary circle at Anna, Lady Miller's house at Batheaston.

Shenstone's letter to Graves on the death of Anthony Whistler was among the manuscripts of Alfred Morrison.

It is a satire on John Wesley, George Whitefield, and Methodism in general, which he saw as a threat to his Anglican congregation.

[10] The book's full title was The Spiritual Quixote, or the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, a Comic Romance (anon.

[7] The hero has been identified with Sir Harry Trelawny, 5th Baronet (unlikely by chronology), Joseph Townsend and his own brother Charles Caspar Graves.

The rambles in the novel brought Wildgoose to Bath, Bristol, the Leasowes of Shenstone, and the Peak District.

[7] Graves from early life wrote verses for magazines, and some of his poems appeared in the collections of Robert Dodsley (iv.

He published:[7] Graves wrote the 30th number, on "grumbling", in Thomas Monro's Olla Podrida In the Gentleman's Magazine, 1815, pt.

[7] Graves married Lucy Bartholomew (died 1777), a farmer's daughter from Aldworth, after eloping to London with her around the end of 1746.