Thomas Rackett

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.[1]
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