Early Life
Keats was born at Chalton, Hampshire the son of Rev. Richard Keats, Rector of Bideford in Devon and Headmaster of Blundell's School. His formal education was brief. At the age of nine, in 1766, he entered New College School and was then admitted briefly to Winchester College in 1768 but lacked scholastic aptitude and determined on a career in the Royal Navy.
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