Soame Jenyns was an English writer and Member of Parliament.
“Great men whilst living must expect disgraces,
Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places.”
"The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated", lines 19-20, in Poems (1752), p. 87
A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion (1776), p. 47
"Reflections on Several Subjects", in Miscellaneous Pieces, Vol. II (1761), p. 250
Disquisitions on Several Subjects (1782), Disquisition II: "On Cruelty to Inferior Animals", p. 11
Source: The Works of Soam Jenyns (1793), p. 190
