Thomas Tickell

Thomas Tickell (17 December 1685 – 23 April 1740) was a minor English poet and man of letters.

He did not take orders, but by a dispensation from the Crown was allowed to retain his fellowship until his marriage to Clotilda Eustace in 1726 in Dublin.

In 1724 Tickell was appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, a post which he retained until his death in 1740, at Bath, aged 54.

Tickell owned a house[2] and small estate in Glasnevin on the banks of the River Tolka, which later became the site of the Botanic Gardens.

too high, the price for knowledge, taught us how to die.His ballad of Cohn and Mary was for a long time the most popular of his poems.