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Henry Fielding came out to Portugal hoping to cure his tuberculosis
1754
The author of ‘Tom Jones’, Henry Fielding came out to Portugal hoping to cure his tuberculosis. He is buried in the British Cemetery in Lisbon. His account of "The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon" was published in 1755.