A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brett, Henry

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 5 June, 1695.

Eldest son of Henry Brett, of Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire. He became a friend of Addison, and is supposed to be the "Colonel Rambler" of The Tatler. He married Ann, the divorced wife of the Earl of Macclesfield, And the mother of the poet Richard Savage. He died suddenly in 1724.