Kent

DING 2015 “Attorney and supervisor of customs at Sandwich. In 1791 published Poems, Miscellaneous and Humorous which was re-edited in 1824 as Kentish Tales. In this second edition the dialect was toned down.”

Works

1791. Poems, Miscellaneous and Humorous, with explanatory notes and observations. Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby. SC.

1797. The Dog-tax: A Poem. Canterbury: Printed for the Author by Simmons and Kirkby.

1824. Kentish Tales, in Verse, and Other Humorous Poems, with Notes, Historical, Wittical, Critical, Wag, and Pragmatical, &c., &c., &c. by the Late Edward Nairne, Esq. of Sandwich, in Kent. Second Edition. Sandgate: Published by Messr. Purday and Son. SC. EDD.

Not KingKong Project

For further information about his life and works, see:

Anonymous. 1799. “Obituary”. The Gentleman’s Magazine July: 626

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nairne,_Edward_%28DNB00%29

http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00113690

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