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Henry Fielding

English novelist and magistrate who wrote the classic book Tom Jones

Did you know?As a magistrate, he helped found the Bow Street Runners, which was London's first professional police force.

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751).

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