See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:BYRON (1834-1884)
, See also:English playwright, son of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Byron, at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:British See also:consul at See also:Port-au-See also:Prince, was See also:born in See also:Manchester in See also:January 1834
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He entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple as a student in 1858, with the intention of devoting his time to See also:play-See also:writing
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He soon ceased to make any pretence of legal study, and joined a provincial See also:company as an actor
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In this See also:line he never made any real success; and, though he continued to See also:act for years, chiefly in his own plays, he had neither originality nor See also:charm
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Meanwhile he wrote assiduously, and few men have produced so many pieces of so diverse a nature
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He was the first editor of the weekly comic See also:paper, Fun, and started the See also:short-lived Comic Trials
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His first successes were in See also:burlesque; but in 1865 he joined See also:Miss See also:Marie See also:Wilton (afterwards See also:Lady See also:Bancroft) in the management of the Prince of See also:Wales's See also:theatre, near See also:Tottenham See also:Court Road
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Here several of his pieces, comedies and extravaganzas were produced with success; but, upon his severing the See also:partnership two years later, and starting management on his own See also:account in the provinces, he was financially unfortunate
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The commercial success of his See also:life was secured with Our Boys, which was played at the See also:Vaudeville from January 1875 till See also:April 1879—a then unprecedented " run." The Upper Crust, another of his successes, gave a congenial opportunity to Mr J
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See also:Toole for one of his
inimitably broad See also:character-sketches
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During the last few years of his life Byron was in frail See also:health; he died in Clapham on the See also:firth of April 1884
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Byron was the author of some of the most popular See also:stage pieces of his See also:day
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Yet his extravaganzas have no wit but that of violence; his rhyming couplets are without See also:polish, and decorated only by forced and often pointless puns
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His sentiment had T
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See also:Robertson's insipidity without its freshness, and restored an See also:element of vulgarity which his predecessor had laboured to eradicate from theatrical tradition
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He could draw a " See also:Cockney " character with some fidelity, but his dramatis personae were usually See also:mere puppets for the utterance of his jests
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Byron was also the author of a novel, Paid in Full (1865), which appeared originally in Temple See also:Bar
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In his social relations he had many See also:friends, among whom he was justly popular for geniality and imperturbable See also:good See also:temper
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