Richard Graves
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Richard Graves (16 May 1715 – 23 November 1804) was an English cleric, writer, and novelist.
He is best known for his picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote (1773).
Early life
Richard Graves (1677–1729), an antiquary, and his Welsh wife Elizabeth, née Morgan, were born in Mickleton Manor, Gloucestershire. Morgan Graves (died 1770) of the Inner Temple, as well as cleric Charles Caspar Graves, were his brothers.
Graves attended William Smith, Curate's school in Mickleton from 1729, and later at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon (now Abingdon School). Utrecia, Smith's well-read daughter, later became a part of his life, a union with whom he broke off before her death in 1743.
Later life
Graves was short of money for a time. Sir Edward Harvey of Langley, who lived near Uxbridge, was appointed rector of Claverton, Somerset, in 1748 by William Skrine. He was born in July 1749 and died before his death, but he never left the country for long.
Ralph Allen obtained a grave for Graves in 1763, along with his uncle Kilmersdon's, and also found him as chaplain to Mary Townshend, Countes Chatham. Around 1793, he purchased the rectory of Croscombe, Somerset, but it was only temporary. In 1767, he purchased Claverton's advowson from Allen's agents but later sold it to them. Allen had begun the old rectory house in part in 1760, but Graves expanded it.
Graves have been teaching his own children for 30 years. Until his parsonage house was enlarged, he rented the large house at Claverton for sixty pounds a year, and "the great gallery-library was turned into a dormitory." He gradually advanced through his interests and teaching, and the manor of Combe Monckton, Somerset, was one of his many acquisitions. He reportedly walked almost every day to Bath, despite being nearly 90. He was a Whig in politics, mingled in culture, was a frequent visitor of Allen or the Warburtons at Prior Park, and "contributed to the vase," when participating in the literary circle at Lady Miller's house in Batheaston. Shenstone paid him multiple visits to Claverton, from 1744 to 1763.
Graves died on November 23, 1890, and they were buried in the parish church on December 1st. To his memory, a mural tablet was placed there.
