FAWKES, FRANCIS (1720-1777), English poet and divine, born at Warmsworth, near Doncaster, where his father was rector, and baptized on April 4, 172o. After studying at Jesus college, Cambridge, he took orders, and finally was made one of the chap lains to the princess of Wales. His first publication is said to have been Bramham Park, a Poem, in 1745; a volume of poems and translations appeared in 1761; and Partridge Shooting, an eco logue, in 1764. His translations of the minor Greek poets— (Anacreon, Sappho, Bion and Moschus, Musaeus, Theocritus and Apollonius)—were celebrated at the time, but they are less likely to be remembered than his song, "Dear Tom, this brown jug, that now foams with mild ale." Fawkes died on Aug. 26, 17 7 7.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—For his translations see A. Chalmers, Works of the Bibliography.—For his translations see A. Chalmers, Works of the English Poets, vol. xx.