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Rev. William Unwin (1744–1786), English clergyman, friend of William Cowper

Son of Rev. Morley Unwin (d. 1767), rector of Grimston in Norfolk, and his wife, Mary née Cawthorne. Educated at the University of Cambridge; he met the poet William Cowper by chance in Huntingdon and they quickly became close friends; Cowper lived as a lodger in the Unwin household from 1765 until Rev. Morley's unexpected death, shortly after which Unwin was ordained and given a curacy. Rector of Stock 1778. He died of typhus, caught on a trip through the southern counties of England.