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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

1707 CE–1754 CE · Writer · Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset

Henry Fielding was an English novelist, dramatist, and magistrate. He first made his name in the London theatre of the 1730s with satirical plays, an output curtailed after the Licensing Act of 1737, which followed his stage attacks on the government. Turning to prose, he produced "Joseph Andrews" (1742) and the panoramic "Tom Jones" (1749), works often cited among the foundations of the English novel. Appointed a magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex in 1748, he helped organize an early salaried force of London thief-takers. Seeking relief from failing health, he sailed to Lisbon in 1754 and died there that October.

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Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset

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