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Richard Cumberland (February 19, 1732 — May 7, 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant. February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kingâ€™s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... May 7 is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, the great-grandson of the bishop of Peterborough; his father, Dr Denison Cumberland, became successively Bishop of Clonfert and of Kilmore. His mother was Joanna, youngest daughter of the great scholar Richard Bentley and the heroine of John Byrom's popular eclogue, Cohn and Phoebe. Bentley's grandson later collected all the pamphlets bearing on the Letters of Phalaris controversy, and defended the reputation of his ancestor in his Letter to Bishop Robert Lowth. His youngest sister was poet Mary Alcock. Cumberland was educated at the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds, and he relates how, when the head-master Arthur Kinsman told Bentley he would make his grandson as good a scholar as the grandfather himself, Bentley retorted: "Pshaw, Arthur, how can that be, when I have forgot more than thou ever knewest?" Bentley died during his grandson's schooldays; and in 1744 the boy was moved to Westminster School, then at the height of its reputation under Dr Nicholls. Among his schoolfellows were Warren Hastings, George Colman (the elder), Charles Churchill and William Cowper. At the age of fourteen, Cumberland went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1750 he took his degree as tenth wrangler. His account of his degree examination, as well as that for a fellowship at his college, part of which he underwent in the "judges' chamber," where he was born, is curious; he was by virtue of an alteration in the statutes elected to his fellowship in the second year of his degree. Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kingâ€™s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 â€“ July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, Classics scholar and critic. ... John Byrom (February 29, 1692 - September 26, 1763) was an English poet. ... An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. ... Robert Lowth, D. D. Lord Bishop of London Robert Lowth (November 27, 1710 â€“ November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar. ... Mary Alcock [nÃ©e Cumberland] (ca. ... Grammar school can refer to various types of schools in different English-speaking countries. ... Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England. ... The Royal College of large men at Westminster (almost always known as Westminster School) is one of Britains top boys independent schools and one of the nine British public schools, as set out in the Public Schools Act 1868. ... Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1786. ... George Colman (1732 - 14 August 1794) was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called the Elder, and sometimes George the First, to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger. ... Charles Churchill (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764), was an English poet and satirist. ... Portrait of William Cowper attributed to Romney. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kingâ€™s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... At the University of Cambridge, a wrangler is a student who has completed the third year (called Part II) of the Mathematical Tripos with first-class honours. ...

Meanwhile his work as a classical scholar had been interspersed with attempts at imitating Edmund Spenser, and a dramatic effort modeled after William Mason's Elfrida, called Caractacus. He had just begun to read for his fellowship when the Earl of Halifax offered him the post of private secretary, first lord of trade and plantations in the Duke of Newcastle's ministry. His family persuaded him to accept, and he returned to the post after his election as fellow. It left him plenty of time for literary pursuits, which included a poem in blank verse about India. He resigned his fellowship when he married his cousin Elizabeth Ridge in 1759, to whom he had paid his addresses on receiving through Lord Halifax "a small establishment as crown-agent for Nova Scotia." In 1761 he accompanied his patron (who had been appointed lord-lieutenant) to Ireland as Ulster secretary; and in acknowledgment of his services was offered a baronetcy, which he declined. When in 1762 Halifax became secretary of state, Cumberland in vain applied for the post of under-secretary, but could only obtain the clerkship of reports at the Board of Trade under Lord Hillsborough. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... William Mason (1725 â€“ 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener. ... Duke of Newcastle is a title which has been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain. ... Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 11 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a species of knighthood known as a baronetcy. ... The Board of Trade circa 1808. ...

When Lord George Germaine (Sackville) in 1775 acceded to office, Cumberland was appointed secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations, a post he held till Edmund Burke's economical reform abolished it in 1782. In 1780, he had been sent on a confidential mission to Spain to negotiate a separate peace treaty; but though he was well received by King Charles III of Spain and his minister José Moñino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca, the question of Gibraltar proved a stumbling-block. He was recalled in 1781, and was refused repayment of the expenses he had incurred, towards which only £1000 had been advanced. He thus found himself £4500 out-of-pocket: in vain, he says, "I wearied the door of Lord North till his very servants drove me from it"; his memo remained unread or unnoticed either by the prime minister or by secretary Robinson, through whom the original promise had been made. Soon after this experience he lost his office, and had to retire on a compensation allowance of less than half-pay. He took up residence at Tunbridge Wells; but during his last years he mostly lived in London, where he died. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, a short oration being pronounced by his friend Dean Vincent. Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729[1] â€“ July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. ... Charles III of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... JosÃ© MoÃ±ino, conde de Floridablanca, painted by Goya JosÃ© MoÃ±ino, conde de Floridablanca JosÃ© MoÃ±ino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca (October 21, 1728 - December 30, 1808), Spanish statesman. ... Out-of-pocket expenses are direct outlays of cash which are not reimbursed. ... Royal Tunbridge Wells (often called simply Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ... The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often mistaken for one), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ...

Cumberland's wrote much over the course of his long life, but is likely to be remembered only for his plays and perhaps his memoirs. The collection of essays and other pieces entitled The Observer (1785), afterwards republished with a translation of The Clouds, found a place among The British Essayists. For the accounts— given in The Observer of the Greek writers, especially the comic poets, Cumberland availed himself of Bentley's manuscripts and annotated books in his possession; his translations from Greek fragments, which are not inelegant but lack closeness, are republished in James Bailey's Comicorum Graecorum (part i., 1840) and Hermesianactis, Archibochi, et Pratinae fragmenta. Cumberland further produced Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain (1782 and 1787); a Catalogue of the King of Spain's Paintings (1787); two novels—Arundel (1789), a story in letters, and Henry (1795), a "diluted comedy" on the construction and polishing of which he seems to have expended great care; a religious epic, Calvary, or the Death of Christ (1792); his last publication was a poem entitled Retrospection. Bentleys winged B badge and hood ornament Bentley Motors Limited is a British based manufacturer of luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers. ... See article for: James Anthony Bailey of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus James Bailey was Mayor of the city of Houston, Texas in 1846. ...

He is also said have joined Sir James Bland Burges in an epic, the Exodiad (1807), and in a novel, John de Lancaster. Besides these he wrote the Letter to the Bishop of Oxford in vindication of Bentley (1767); another to the Bishop of Llandaff (Richard Watson) on his proposal for equalizing the revenues of the Established Church (1783); a Character of the late Lord Sackville (1785), whom in his Memoirs he vindicates from the stigma of cowardice; and an anonymous pamphlet, Curtius rescued from the Gulf, against the redoubtable Dr Parr. He was also the author of a version of fifty of the Psalms of David; of a tract on the evidences of Christianity; and of other religious exercises in prose and verse, the former including "as many sermons as would make a large volume, some of which have been delivered from the pulpits." Lastly, he edited a short-lived critical journal called The London Review (1809), intended to be a rival to the Quarterly, with signed articles. The Bishop of Llandaff is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. ...

Cumberland wrote his Memoirs in 1804-5; they were published in 1806, with a supplement added in 1807. They include a long account of his Spanish mission and some interesting reminiscences of several persons of note— especially Bubb Dodington, Single-Speech Hamilton, and Lord George Sackville among politicians, and of Garrick, Samuel Foote and Oliver Goldsmith, though the accuracy of some of the anecdotes is disputed. The book exhibits its author as an amiable egotist, careful of his own reputation, given to prolixity and undistinguished by wit, but a good observer of men and manners. The uneasy self-absorption which Sheridan immortalized in the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic is apparent enough in this autobiography, but presents itself there in no offensive form. The incidental criticisms of actors have been justly praised. For other people named Samuel Foote, see Samuel Foote (disambiguation) Samuel Foote (January 27, 1720 â€“ October 21, 1777), a Cornish dramatist and actor, was baptized at Truro on January 27, 1720. ... Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730 or 1728 â€“ April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-naturd Man (1768) and...

Cumberland was hardly warranted in the conjecture that no English author had yet equalled his list of dramas in point of number; but his plays, published and unpublished, have been computed to amount to fifty-four. About 35 of these are regular plays, to which have been added four operas and a farce; about half are comedies. His favorite mode was the "sentimental comedy," which combines domestic plots, rhetorical enforcement of moral precepts, and comic humor. These plays are primarily, to borrow Cumberland's own phraseology, "attempts upon the heart." He takes great credit to himself for weaving his plays out of "homely stuff, right British drugget," and for eschewing "the vile Gallic stage"; on the other hand, he borrowed from the sentimental fiction of his own country, including Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne. Look up farce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 â€“ July 4, 1761) was a major 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 â€“ October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ... Laurence Sterne Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 â€“ March 18, 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman. ...

His favorite theme is virtue in distress or danger, but assured of its reward in the fifth act; his most constant characters are men of feeling and young ladies who are either prudes or coquettes. Cumberland's comic talents lay in the invention of comic characters taken from the "outskirts of the empire," and intended to vindicate the good elements of the Scots, Irish, and colonials from English prejudice. The plays are highly patriotic and adhere to conventional morality. If Cumberland's dialogue lacks brilliance and his characters reality, the construction of the plots is generally skilful, due to Cumberland's insight into the secrets of theatrical effect. Though Cumberland's sentimentality is often wearisome, his morality is generally sound; that if he was without the genius requisite for elevating the national drama, he did his best to keep it pure and sweet; and that if he borrowed much, he borrowed only the best aspects of other dramatists' work.

His first play was a tragedy, The Banishment of Cicero, published in 1761 after David Garrick rejected it; this was followed in 1765 by a musical drama, The Summer's Tale, subsequently compressed into an afterpiece Amelia (1768). Cumberland first essayed sentimental comedy in The Brothers (1769). This play is inspired by Henry Fielding's Tom Jones; its comic characters are the jolly old tar Captain Ironsides, and the henpecked husband Sir Benjamin Dove, whose progress to self-assertion is genuinely comic. Horace Walpole said, that it acted well, but read ill, though he could distinguish in it "strokes of Mr Bentley." Portrait of David Garrick David Garrick (February 19, 1717 â€“ January 20, 1779) was an English actor, dramatist, theatrical producer and theatrical manager, and a friend and pupil of Samuel Johnson. ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 â€“ October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ... Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 â€“ March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival. ...

The epilogue paid a compliment to Garrick, who helped the production of Cumberland's second comedy The West-Indian (1771). Its hero, who probably owes much to the suggestion of Garrick, is a young scapegrace fresh from the tropics, "with rum and sugar enough belonging to him to make all the water in the Thames into punch,"—a libertine with generous instincts, which prevail in the end. This early example of the modern drama was favorably received; Boden translated it into German, and Goethe acted in it at the Weimar court. The Fashionable Lover (1772) is a sentimental comedy, as is The Choleric Man (1774), founded on the Adelphi of Terence. , IPA: , (28 August 1749 â€“ 22 March 1832) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, theorist, humanist, scientist, and painter. ... The city hall Goethe and Schiller in front of the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar is a city in Germany. ... Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. ...

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Cumberland translated Aristophanes' Clouds (1798), and adapted William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens (1771) and Philip Massinger's The Bondman and The Duke of Milan (both 1779). Edmund Kean (March 17, 1787 â€“ May 15, 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever. ... Friedrich Schiller â€œSchillerâ€ redirects here. ... Sketch of Aristophanes Aristophanes (Greek: , ca. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare written around 1607. ... Philip Massinger (1583 - 1640) was an English dramatist. ...

Cumberland published his memoirs in 1806-07. His novel Henry was printed in Ballantyne's Novelists' Library (1821), with a preface by Sir Walter Scott. A Critical Examination of Cumberland's works and a memoir of the author based on his autobiography, with the addition of some more or less feeble criticisms, by William Madford, appeared in 1812. An excellent account of Cumberland is included in "George Paston's" Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (1901). Hermann Theodor Hettner well characterizes Cumberland's position in the history of the English drama in Litteraturgesch. d. 18. Jahrhunderts (2nd ed., 1865), i. 520. Cumberland's portrait by George Romney (whose talent he was one of the first to encourage) is in the National Portrait Gallery. Raeburns portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822. ... Hermann Theodor Hettner (March 12, 1821 - May 29, 1882), was a German literary historian and writer on the history of art. ... Portrait of Miss Willoughby, second half of 18th century. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in central London which was opened in 1856. ...

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