Richard Owen Cambridge

Horace Walpole in his letters makes many humorous allusions to Cambridge in the character of newsmonger.

Cambridge's major work was the Scribleriad (1751), a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift.

The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Miguel de Cervantes as his master.

Robert Orme, who had promised Cambridge the use of his papers, limited the work carried out in favour of a project of his own.

It contained an Account of his Life and Character by his son, George Owen Cambridge (1803), the Scribleriad, some narrative and satirical poems, and about twenty papers originally published in Edward Moore's paper, The World.