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Robert Bolling (August 17, 1738 – July 21, 1775) was an American planter, poet and politician. The great-grandson of Robert Bolling, he was born in Virginia and sent to England for his education.
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Colonel Robert Bolling (December 26, 1646 – July 17, 1709)...
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22. Dez. 2021 · Robert Bolling was a poet, a member of the House of Burgesses (1761–1765), the sheriff of Buckingham County, and a member of the county court (1761–1775). Trained as a lawyer, he nearly fought a duel with William Byrd (1728–1777), a judge on the General Court, when Bolling accused the judges of bias in a murder case.
7. Jan. 2017 · Robert Bolling of Chellowe, was a sheriff of Buckingham County (now Albemarle), a colonel of the Buckingham militia by 1773. He was trained as lawyer but best known as a poet. A published elegy is featured here "Elegy" by Robert Bolling. He had many talents and he was educated in England (as most Virginia boys of gentry did in that ...
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- August 28, 1738
- Mary (Burton) Bolling, Susan (Watson) Bolling
- July 21, 1775
Robert Bolling (August 17, 1738 – July 21, 1775) was an American planter, poet and politician. The great-grandson of Robert Bolling, he was born in Virginia and sent to England for his education.
Poet. Significance. Bolling was the most eminent Southern poet before the Revolution, and his writing and his life demonstrate some of the profound problems of cultural identity faced by even the wealthiest members of the colonial gentry.
Bolling is best known as a poet, however, and he published more poetry than any other colonial American between 1759 and 1775. In addition, during the failed courtship of his distant cousin, Bolling kept a journal, A Circumstantial Account, which provides a distinctive view of eighteenth-century Virginia gentry.
