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INTRODUCTION. Walter Savage Landor was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at the age of eighty-nine in September, 1864.  He was the eldest son of a physician at Warwick, and his second name, Savage, was the family name of his mother, who owned two estates in Warwickshire—Ipsley Court and Tachbrook—and had a reversionary interest in Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire.  To this property, worth £80,000, her eldest son was heir.  That eldest son was born a poet, had a generous nature