Thomas Tickell

Thomas Tickell was a friend and follower of Joseph Addison, a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and an under-secretary of state. Gilfillan gives his birth as 1686 at Bridekirk near Carlisle.

His elegy To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr Addison (1721), prefixed to Addison's Works, is generally counted his finest poem and is printed in full.