LAURENCE STERNE was born 300 years ago in County Tipperary. Raised in Yorkshire, he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and entered the Church. This gave him a living back in his home county until, in the 1760s, the popularity of a book he began writing aged 46 made him rich and famous.
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