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3 unusual facts about James Wilmot


James Wilmot

After Wilmot's death, his niece, Olivia Serres, claimed that he was the pseudonymous author of the famous Letters of Junius and an influential friend of major writers and politicians.

Wilmot's biography was written in 1813 by his niece Olivia Serres, who had lived with her bachelor uncle as a child.

He was appointed to a curacy at Kenilworth and later promoted to the position of rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, fifteen miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, where he remained for the rest of his life and served as a Justice of the Peace.



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