Thomas Rackett
English clergyman
Thomas Rackett
(1757–1840) was an English clergyman, known as an antiquary.
Thomas Rackett, 1768 portrait as a boy by
George Romney
in a declamatory pose. At the age of 14 he recited to
David Garrick
the latter's ode for the Shakespearean jubilee and Garrick presented him with a gilt copy of it. Next year (1771) Garrick gave him a
folio copy of Shakespeare
with a laudatory inscription.
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