AMHURST, NICHOLAS English political writer, was born at Marden, Kent, Oct. 16 1697, and died at Twickenham, April 12 1742. He was educated at Merchant Tay lors' School and St. John's College, Oxford. At Oxford he wrote many satirical poems on university life, and in 1 759 was expelled. Some of his satirical papers were published in 1726, as Terrae Filius : or the secret history of the University of Oxford. In Lon don he became a pamphleteer against Walpole's Government, editing The Craftsman, which was the organ of Lord Bolingbroke and William Pulteney. Amhurst was in prison for a short time in 1737 for suspected libel. When his political friends overthrew Walpole in 1742 they appear to have forgotten Amhurst.