Life

He was the son of William Duppa of Culmington

Culmington

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, Shropshire

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. He studied art in Rome in his youth, and showed himself a skilful draughtsman. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

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, 9 November 1807, aged 37 and became a student of the Middle Temple

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, 7 February 1810. He graduated LL.B. at Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall

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, Cambridge, in 1814.

He wrote on botanical, artistic, and political topics and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He died in Lincoln's Inn

Lincoln's Inn

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, 11 July 1831.

Works

Duppa's chief works were:

• 1. ‘A Journal of … the subversion of the Ecclesiastical Government in 1798,’ London, 1799, 3rd ed. 1807.
• 2. ‘A Selection of twelve heads from the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo,’ 1801, imp. folio.
• 3. ‘Heads from the Fresco Pictures of Raffaele in the Vatican,’ 1803, fol.
• 4. ‘Memoirs [1742–57] of a Literary and Political Character,’ i.e. Richard Glover
  Richard Glover (Poet)
  Richard Glover was an English poet and politician.-Life:The son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London. He was educated at Cheam in Surrey....
  
   (1712–1785), whom Duppa seeks to identify with Junius
  Identity of Junius
  Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of political letters to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772 as well as several other London newspapers such as the London Evening Post....
  
  , London, 1803.
• 5. ‘The Life and Literary Works of Michael Angelo Buonarotti, with his Poetry and Letters,’ London, 1806, with fifty etched plates; 2nd ed. 1807, 3rd ed. 1816 (reissued in Bohn's ‘European Library,’ 1846, and in Bohn's ‘Illustrated Library,’ 1869).
• 6. ‘Elements of [Linnæan] Botany,’ 1809.
• 7. ‘Illustrations of the Lotus of Antiquity,’ London, 1813, 4to; reissued in folio, 1816, in an edition of twenty-five copies (cf. Pritzel, Thes. Lit. Bot. 2nd ed. p. 95).
• 8. ‘Classes and Orders of Botany,’ illustrated, 1816.
• 9. Dr. Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales in 1774, first printed and elaborately edited by Duppa in 1816 with Mrs. Piozzi
  Hester Thrale
  Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
  
  's help (incorporated in John Wilson Croker
  John Wilson Croker
  John Wilson Croker was an Irish statesman and author.He was born at Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800...
  
  's ‘Boswell’).
• 10. ‘Life of Raffaele,’ 1816.
• 11. ‘Outlines of Michael Angelo's Works, with Plans of St. Peter's, Rome,’ 1816.
• 12. ‘Miscellaneous Observations on the Continent,’ 1825; reissued in 1828 as ‘Travels in Italy, Sicily, and the Lipari Islands.’
• 13. ‘Maxims and Reflections,’ 1830.

Duppa also issued pamphlets on literary copyright (1813), on Junius (1814), and on the price of corn (1815), besides many classical schoolbooks. His library was sold 3–7 September 1831.

Family

A relative of the same name died at Cheney Longville

Cheney Longville

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, Shropshire, on 25 February 1831, while high sheriff of Radnorshire

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. An elder brother, John Wood Duppa (1762–1840), was rector of Puddlestone, Herefordshire

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