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William Whitehead (1715–1785)
Whitehead, William. An English poet and dramatist; born in Cambridge, 1715; died on April 14, 1785. He was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, was secretary and registrar of the Order of the Bath, and became poet-laureate in 1757, succeeding Colley Cibber. He wrote ‘The Roman Father,’ a tragedy; ‘The School for Lovers,’ a comedy; and other dramas and poems.