Item VI/iv/06 - Two Odes

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GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-VI/iv/06

Title

Two Odes

Date(s)

  • 1957 (Accumulation)
  • 1760 (Publication)

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4to, 1 volume

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Name of creator

(1732-1794)

Biographical history

COLMAN, GEORGE, son of Francis Colman, British Resident at Court of Tuscany, and Mary, dau. of John Gumley MP, Isleworth, Middlesex, Commissioner-Gen. of Musters, and sister-in-law of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (qv); bapt. 18 Apr 1732; adm. Oct 1741; KS 1746; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 - void 25 Jun 1764; BA 1755; MA 1758; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jan 1752, called to bar 24 Jan 1757; Oxford circuit; joint editor with Bonnell Thornton (qv) of The Connoisseur, 1754-6; his first play, Polly Honeycombe, was produced at Drury Lane 5 Dec 1760; his Jealous Wife, the most popular comedy of its day, appeared in the following year, and The Clandestine Marriage, written in collaboration with his friend David Garrick, in 1766; manager, Covent Garden Theatre 1767-74, Haymarket Theatre 1777-89; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1778; edited The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1778; translated The Comedies of Terence, 1765, and Horace’s Art of Poetry, 1783; m. Sarah Ford, actress; d. 14 Aug 1794. DNB.

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(1733-1764)

Biographical history

LLOYD, ROBERT, son of Pierson Lloyd (qv); bapt. St. John’s, Smith Square, Westminster 17 May 1733 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Apr 1740 (Lloyd's); KS 1746; Capt. of the School 1750; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752; BA 1755; MA 1758; contributed to the periodical The Connoisseur, of which Bonnell Thornton (qv) and George Colman (qv) were joint editors; Usher at the School c. 1758; joined Charles Churchill (qv) in a career of reckless dissipation; author, The Actor, 1760; supervised the poetical department of the periodical The Library, 1761-2; a collection of his own poems was published in 1762; edited St. James’s Magazine 1762-3; arrested for debt and confined in the Fleet Prison; his comic opera, The Capricious Lovers, was produced at Drury Lane 28 Nov 1764; his Poetical Works were edited by Dr. Kendrick 1774 (see vol. i, 151-3, and vol. ii, 176-82, for his Prologues and other school verses); described by William Cowper (qv) in his Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq., as “… born sole heir and single/ Of dear Mat. Prior’s easy jingle”; d. in the Fleet Prison 15 Dec 1764. DNB.

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  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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WS-GRE-VI/iv/6

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GB 2014

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Final

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Partial

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  • English

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  • Latin

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