Samuel Boyse

– May 1749)[1] was an Irish poet and writer who worked for Sir Robert Walpole and whose religious verses in particular were prized and reprinted in his time.

He studied in Dublin, then Glasgow University; he had no profession other than writer, a career which took him to Edinburgh and London.

[4] Boyse "had many brilliant opportunities for advancement, all of which he wasted by almost inexplicable recklessness", according to William Lloyd Phelps.

He often had to beg for the smallest coins, and wrote verses in bed to obtain money for clothes and food.".

[4] Boyse became a regular contributor to Gentleman's Magazine, where he wrote under the pen names "Alcaeus" and "Y".