For other people named Samuel Foote, see Samuel Foote (disambiguation) Samuel Foote (or Foot) may refer to: Samuel A. Foot, politician from Connecticut Samuel Foote, Cornish dramatist Samuel Foote (writer), founder of the Semi-Colon Club in Cincinnatti, Ohio This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Samuel Foote (January 27, 1720 – October 21, 1777), a Cornish dramatist and actor, was baptized at Truro on January 27, 1720. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Truro is Cornwalls only city and its administrative centre. ... January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. ...

Of his attachment to his native Cornwall, he gives no better proofs as an author than by making the country booby Timothy (in The Knights) sound the praises of that county and of its manly pastimes; but towards his family, he showed a loyal and enduring affection. His father was a man of good family and position. His mother, Eleanor Goodere, whom he is said in person as well as in disposition to have strongly resembled, he liberally supported in the days of his prosperity, and after her death indignantly vindicated her character from the imputations recklessly cast upon it by the revengeful spite of the duchess of Kingston. Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston (1720 - August 26, 1788), sometimes called Countess of Bristol, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh (d. ...

About the time when Foote came of age, he inherited his first fortune through the murder of his uncle, Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart., by his brother, Captain Samuel Goodere. Foote was educated at the collegiate school at Worcester, and at Worcester College, Oxford, distinguishing himself in both places by mimicry and audacious pleasantries of all kinds, and, although he left Oxford without taking his degree, acquiring a classical training which afterwards enabled him neatly to turn a classical quotation or allusion, and helped to give to his prose style a certain fluency and elegance. The city of Worcester (pronounced Wuh-ster) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ... Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Prose blah blah blahProse generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme that is often found in poetry. ...

Foote was designed for the law, but certainly not by nature. In his chambers at the Temple, and in the Grecian Coffee-house hard by, he learned to know something of lawyers if not of law, and was afterwards able to jest at the jargon and to mimic the mannerisms of the bar, and to satirize the Latitats of the other branch of the profession with particular success. The famous argument in Hobson v. Nobson, in The Lame Lovers, is almost as good of its kind as that in Bardell v. Pickwick. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A lawyer is a person qualified to give legal advice who advises clients in legal matters and represents them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution. ... A latitat is a legal device, namely a writ, that is based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. ...

But a stronger attraction drew him to the Bedford Coffee-house in Covent Garden, and to the theatrical world of which it was the social centre. After he had run through two fortunes (the second of which he appears to have inherited at his father's death) and had then passed through severe straits, he made his first appearance on the actual stage in 1744. Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. ... // Events The third French and Indian War, known as King Georges War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia The First Saudi State founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud Prague occupied by Prussian armies Ongoing events War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Births January 10 - Thomas Mifflin, fifth President...

In 1755 he attended a daily lecture by the retired actor Charles Macklin. At this lecture he extemporised a subsequently well-known piece of nonsense prose to take up a challenge from Macklin that he (Macklin) could memorise any text at a single reading. The text was: 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Charles Macklin (1697?‑1797) was an actor and dramatist born in the north of Ireland, and one of the most distinguished actors of his day, shining equally in tragedy and comedy. ...

• "So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! No soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyalies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots."

This introduced the nonsense text "Grand Panjandrum" into the English language.

It is said that be had married a young lady in Worcestershire; but the traces of his wife (he affirmed himself that he was married to his washer-woman) are mysterious, and probably apocryphal. Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ...

(Note: Samuel Foote is also the name of the founder of the Semi-Colon Club, of which Harriet Beecher Stowe was a member.) To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Toms Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial...

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.