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Jacob Bryant
English scholar and mythographer
Jacob Bryant | |
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| Born | 1715 Plymouth, Devon |
| Died | 14 November 1804 (aged 88–89) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | scholar, mythographer |
Jacob Bryant (1715–1804) was an English scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogues who flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."[1]
Life
Bryant was born at Plymouth.
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His father worked in the customs there, but was afterwards moved to Chatham. Bryant was first sent to a school near Rochester, and then to Eton College. In 1736 he was elected to a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees of B.A.
(1740) and M.A. (1744), later being elected a fellow.[2] He returned to Eton as private tutor to the Duke of Marlborough. In 1756 he accompanied the duke, who was master-general of ordnance and commander-in-chief of the forces in Germany, to the
