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TICKELL, RICHARD, brother of Thomas Tickell (qv); b. 1751; adm. 19 Jun 1764; at Eton Coll. 29 May 1765-8; adm. Middle Temple 8 Nov 1768; called to bar [check : not at Middle Temple]; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual list 1777); obtained pension of £200 p. a. by writing for the Government; Commissioner, Stamp Office, from 24 Aug 1781; produced The Camp, a musical entertainment, at Drury Lane 15 Oct 1778; his pamphlet Anticipations, published Nov 1778, offering a satirical forecast of parliamentary proceedings, had a great success; his opera, The Carnival of Venice, was produced at Drury Lane 13 Dec 1781; becoming connected with Sheridan, the husband of his first wifeís sister, he transferred his pen to the support of Charles James Fox and was elected to Brooksí Club 1785; received financial loan from Warren Hastings (qv) 1793; m. 1st, 25 Jul 1780 Mary, second dau. of Thomas Linley, senior, musical composer; m. 2nd, 24 Aug 1789 Sarah, dau. of Capt. Thomas Ley, EI Maritime Service; killed himself by jumping off the parapet outside the window of his room at Hampton Court 4 Nov 1793. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.