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Wilmington
invoked by Thomson in his Winter, is Sir
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, the first patron of our poet, and
Speaker of the House of Commons.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Wilmington from Infoplease:
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