Thomas Noel was an English poet.
The son of a clergyman, Noel graduated from Oxford in 1824. He married Emily Anne Halliday in 1831. He was a friend of the House of Commons librarian Thomas Vardon and Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron.
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“Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!”
The Pauper's Ride, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
An old Man’s Idyll, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
