Stephen Duck, poet, Keeper of Merlin's Cave, the queen's select library at Richmond, committed suicide by jumping into the River Thames in 1756. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

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