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the town's grammar school. On leaving school - his elder brother, Jonathan, an Army officer, having inherited the family property - Gay was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson, "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation", he soon returned to Barnstaple, where he was educated by his uncle, the Rev. John Hanmer, the nonconformist

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