A former diplomat and agent of the British East India Company who had falle
A former diplomat and agent of the British East India Company who had fallen on hard times, he was eventually granted a stipend of 100 pounds a year by the British government.  He used that money to write treatises with ponderous titles like Specimen of an Entomological Locator, or Essay by means of the Aniletic Method to Retrieve the Ancient Celtic.  He had been given this pension by Lord Granville on the condition that he discontinue writing the types of works which made him famous, such as Memoirs of A Cox-comb and his most famous one.  FTP, name this author who continued to make trouble for publishers years after his death on account of his Fanny Hill.
A former diplomat and agent of the British East India Company who had fallen on hard times, he was eventually granted a stipend of 100 pounds a year by the British government.  
John Cleland