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Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works. [1] His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel.
The Bow Street Runners were the law enforcement officers of the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in the City of Westminster. They have been called London 's first professional police force. The force originally numbered six men and was founded in 1749 by magistrate Henry Fielding, who was also well known as an author. [1]
Apr 18, 2024 · Fielding was a magistrate of a different order. Together with his blind half brother, John Fielding, also a magistrate, he turned an office without honour into one of great dignity and importance and established a new tradition of justice and the suppression of crime in London.
The first court at Bow Street was established in 1740, [3] when Colonel Sir Thomas de Veil, a Westminster justice, sat as a magistrate in his home at number 4. De Veil was succeeded by novelist and playwright Henry Fielding in 1747. He was appointed a magistrate for the City of Westminster in 1748, at a time when the problem of gin consumption ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Henry Fielding was an 18th century English writer and magistrate who established the mechanisms of the modern novel through such works as 'Tom Jones' and 'Amelia.' Updated: May 14, 2021....
Jun 27, 2018 · BORN: 1707, Sharpham, Somerset, England. DIED: 1754, Lisbon, Portugal. NATIONALITY: British. GENRE: Fiction, drama, essays. MAJOR WORKS: Tom Thumb (1730) An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741) The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (1742) The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
In 1748 he was appointed a magistrate, in which role he established a new tradition of justice and suppression of crime in London. He probably wrote Shamela (1741), a burlesque of Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela that he never claimed.
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