Thomas Chatterton share 159 days ago Type: Literary forgery. Summary: A young man in eighteenth-century England claimed to have found poetry by a fifteenth-century priest. The Death of Chatterton, Oil Painting by Henry Wallis, 1856As a young boy growing up in Bristol, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) spent a great deal of time with his un ... Hoaxipedia - museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia · Rank: 28,492 · 207 references |