Life thumb|left|Wine Street, Bristol (1872) Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill.Basil Cottle, Robert Southey and Bristol (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 47, 1980), p.1 He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant, a magazine he originated,Margaret Drabble ed: The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th edition, Oxford, 2000), about criticized the school's practice of excessive whippings, pp 953-4. attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil),Geoffrey Treasure: Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain (2nd, enlarged edition, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1997), p. 143. and at Balliol College, Oxford.
Life thumb|left|Wine Street Bristol (1872) Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill.Basil Cottle, Robert Southey and Bristol (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 47, 1980), p.1 He was educated at Westminster School London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant, a magazine he originated,Margaret Drabble ed: The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th edition, Oxford, 2000), about criticized the school's practice of excessive whippings, pp 953-4. attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil),Geoffrey Treasure Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain (2nd, enlarged edition, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1997), p. 143. and at Balliol College, Oxford.