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REYNOLDS, FREDERIC, brother of Richard Reynolds (qv); b. 1 Nov 1764; adm. 22 Jan 1776 (Jones, sic); left 1780 (?); adm. Middle Temple 5 Jan 1781; abandoned study of law to become a playwright; his first play, Werter, was performed at Bath 25 Nov 1785; wrote nearly a hundred tragedies and comedies, some of which were successes; Byron has a contemptuous allusion to him in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 568-9; author of novel, A Playwright’s Adventures, 1831, and of autobiography The Life and Times of Frederic Reynolds, 1826, which contains some interesting reminiscences of his schooldays; m. 16 Mar 1799 Elizabeth Mansell (IGI), actress at Covent Garden Theatre; d. 16 Apr 1841. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.