Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was born in 1707 at Sharpham Park, Somerset, England, into a family of the gentry; his father was an army officer. He was educated at Eton and studied briefly at the University of Leiden. In London he became a successful playwright, writing comedies and political satires, until the Licensing Act of 1737, passed partly because of his attacks on the prime minister, Robert Walpole, ended his stage career. He then studied law and became a barrister, and he edited newspapers. His comic novels Joseph Andrews (1742), which began as a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), about the adventures of a lively young man raised by a country squire, are among the founding works of the English novel. In 1748 he became a magistrate at Bow Street in London, where with his half-brother John Fielding he organized the Bow Street Runners, an early London police force. In poor health, he sailed to Portugal in 1754 and died in Lisbon that year.

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Faith: Faith not well documented in detail; he wrote a treatise against deistic and materialist views. Source: Wikipedia