BUDGELL, EUSTACE (1686-1737)

—Miscellaneous writer, ed. at Oxf., was a cousin of Add is on, who took him to Ireland and got him appointed to a lucrative office, which, however, he was foolish enough to throw away by lampooning the Viceroy. He a isted A. in the Spectator , of which he wrote 37 numbers signed X. In these he imitates A.'s style with some succe . B., who was vain and vindictive, fell on evil days, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble, was accused of forging a will, and committed suicide by throwing himself out of a boat at London Bridge .