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Lanlugan. An obscure village or hamlet near Shrewsbury. That eminent grammarian and critick William Baxter, (great nephew of Richard Baxter, the nonconformist,) was born at Lanlugan, in 1650. His education was in his youth much neglected, for when at the age of eighteen he went to school at Harrow on the Hill, he knew not one letter in a book, and understood not a word in any language but Welsh. He soon however retrieved his lost time, and at length became a man of profound and extensive erudition. The studies to which he chiefly applied, were those of antiquity and philology, in which he wrote several works.

Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824