Thomas Morell
Thomas Morell was an English librettist, classical scholar, and printer.
after William Hogarth.Life
He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1768 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a "Rector of Buckland in Hertfordshire, Author of the Greek Thesaurus lately published, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Gentleman well skilled in Natural History and every branch of Polite Literature".
He was appointed Garrison Chaplain at Portsmouth barracks in 1775.
Morell wrote the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.
He died in 1784 and was buried in Chiswick, London.Librettos
He is best known as the librettist of the following of George Frideric Handel's oratorios:
