GLOVER, RICHARD (1712-1785), English poet, son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London and educated at Cheam in Surrey. In 1737 he published an epic poem in praise of liberty, Leonidas, which was thought to have a special reference to the politics of the time ; and being warmly com mended by the prince of Wales and his court, it soon passed through several editions. In 1761 he entered parliament as mem ber for Weymouth. He died on Nov. 25, 1785. Glover was one of the reputed authors of Junius; but his claims—which were ad vocated in an Inquiry concerning the author of the Letters of Junius (1815), by R. Duppa—rest on very slight grounds.
Glover's other works include London (1739), a poem; Hosier's Ghost (1739), a ballad directed against the Spaniards; Athenaid (1787), an epic; and his diary, Memoirs . . . from 1742 to (1813).