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homas de Quincey was born in Manchester on 15 August , the second son and fifth of eight children born to a successful and wealthy linen merchant, Thomas Quincey. de Quincey initially was educated at Salford but in , de Quincey's father died and his mother took the family to live in Bath.

de Quincey was educated in schools at Salford, Bath and Winkfield; at the age of 15 he began to attended Manchester Grammar School from which he ran away eighteen months later.

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After spending time wandering in Wales, de Quincey arrived in London in November where he struck up a friendship with a young prostitute called Ann.

Reconciled with his family, de Quincey was persuaded to go to university and in was registered as a student at Worcester College, Oxford.

It appears that he spent little time at university and never graduated. He was a very solitary student who read widely and absorbed the Classics readily. Confessions of an English Opium Eater () contains many classical allusions and Latin qu