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Walter Savage Landor was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at the age of eighty-nine in September,
1864. He was the eldest son of a physician at Warwick, and his second name, Savage, was the family name of
his mother, who owned two estates in Warwickshire-- Ipsley Court and Tachbrook--and had a reversionary
interest in Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire. To this property, worth 80,000 pounds, her eldest son was
heir. That eldest son was born a poet, had a generous nature, and an ardent impetuous temper.
Walter Savage Landor was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at the age of eighty-nine in September,
1864. He was the eldest son of a physician at Warwick, and his second name, Savage, was the family name of
his mother, who owned two estates in Warwickshire-- Ipsley Court and Tachbrook--and had a reversionary
interest in Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire. To this property, worth 80,000 pounds, her eldest son was
heir. That eldest son was born a poet, had a generous nature, and an ardent impetuous temper.