Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes

Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5489274

Born: 1792

Died: 1836

Faith: Quaker

Note: Wiffen was a prolific poet and translator. He hailed from an ironmongers family in
Woburn, Bedfordshire. With James Baldwin Brown and the Rev. Thomas Raffles, he published
a book entitled 'Poems by Three Friends' in 1812. In 1821, John Russell, the (progressive)
6th Duke of Bedford, appointed him the Chief Librarian at Woburn Abbey. He set about
writing a history of the Hosue of Russell, translating the Italian poet Tasso, and
writing well-regarded poems such as 'On Planting a Slip from Milton’s Mulberry Tree,
in the Grounds of Woburn Abbey, Presented by Dr. Thackeray, of Cambridge'.