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2 unusual facts about Francis Negus


Francis Negus

He represented Ipswich in parliament from 1717 until his death, at his seat at Dallinghoo, Suffolk, on 9 September 1732.

Attention was diverted from the point at issue to a discussion of the merits of wine and water, which ended in the compound being nicknamed 'negus.' Edmond Malone in his Life of Dryden (1800) states that the mixture called negus was invented by Colonel Negus in Queen Anne's time.



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