See also:CHARLES See also:CHURCHILL (1731-1764)
, See also:English poet and satirist, was See also:born in See also:Vine See also:Street, See also:Westminster, in See also:February 1731
.
His See also:father, See also:rector of Rainham, See also:Essex, held the curacy and lectureship of St See also:John's, Westminster, from 1733, and the son was educated at Westminster school, where he became a See also:good classical See also:scholar, and formed a See also:close and lasting intimacy with See also:Robert See also:Lloyd
.
See also:Churchill was entered at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1749, but never resided
.
He had been refused at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, ostensibly on the unlikely ground of lack of classical knowledge, but more probably because of a hasty See also:marriage which he had contracted within the rules of the See also:Fleet in his eighteenth See also:year
.
He and his wife lived in his father's See also:house, and Churchill was afterwards sent to the See also:north of See also:England to prepare for See also:holy orders
.
He became See also:curate of See also:South Cadbury, See also:Somersetshire, and, on receiving See also:priest's orders (1756), began to See also:act as his father's curate at Rainham
.
Two years later the See also:elder Churchill died, and the son was elected to succeed him in his curacy and lectureship
.
His emoluments amounted to less than £See also:loo a year, and he increased his income by teaching in a girls' school
.
He fulfilled his various duties with decorum for a while, but his marriage proved unfortunate, and he spent much of his 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 in dissipation in the society of Robert Lloyd
.
He was separated from his wife in 1761, and would have been imprisoned for See also:debt but for the timely help of Lloyd's father, who had been an See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher and was now a See also:master of Westminster school
.
Churchill had already done some See also:work for the booksellers, and his friend Lloyd had had some success with a didactic poem, " The Actor." His intimate knowledge of the See also:theatre was now turned to See also:account in the Rosciad, which appeared in See also:March 1761
.
This reckless and amusing See also:satire described with the most disconcerting accuracy the faults of the various actors and actresses on the See also:London See also:stage
.
Its immediate popularity was no doubt largely due to its See also:personal See also:character, but its real vigour and raciness make it See also:worth See also:reading even now when the See also:objects of Churchill's wit are many of them forgotten
.
The first impressicn was published anonymously, and in the See also:Critical See also:Review, conducted by Tobias See also:Smollett, it was confidently asserted that the poem was the See also:joint See also:production of See also:George See also:Colman, Bonnell See also:Thornton and Robert Lloyd
.
Churchill owned the authorship and immediately published an See also:Apology addressed to the Critical Reviewers, which, after developing the subject that it is only the See also:caste ofauthors that See also:prey on their own See also:kind, repeats the fierce attack on the stage
.
Incidentally it contains an enthusiastic See also:tribute to See also:Dryden, of whom Churchill was a not unworthy scholar
.
In the Rosciad he had given warm praise to Mrs See also:Pritchard, Mrs See also:Cibber and Mrs See also:Clive, but no leading London actor, with the exception of See also:David See also:Garrick, had escaped censure, and in the Apology Garrick was clearly threatened
.
He deprecated See also:criticism by showing every possible civility to Churchill, who became a terror to the actors
.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Davies wrote to Garrick attributing his blundering in the See also:part of Cymbeline " to my accidentally seeing Mr Churchill in the See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit, it rendering me confused and unmindful of my business." Churchill's satire made him many enemies, and inquiries into his way of See also:life provided abundant See also:matter for See also:retort
.
In See also:Night, an See also:Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), he answered the attacks made on him, offering by way of See also:defence the See also:argument that any faults were better than See also:hypocrisy
.
His scandalous conduct brought down the censure of the See also:dean of Westminster, and in 1763 the protests of his parishioners led him to resign his offices, and he was See also:free to See also:wear his " See also:blue coat with See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal buttons " and much See also:gold See also:lace without remonstrance from the dean
.
The Rosciad had been refused by several publishers, and was finally published at Churchill's own expense
.
He received a considerable sum from the See also:sale, and paid his old creditors in full, besides making an See also:allowance to his wife
.
He now became a close ally of John Wilkes, whom he regularly assisted with the North Briton
.
The Prophecy of See also:Famine: A Scots See also:Pastoral (1763), his next poem, was founded on a See also:paper written originally for that See also:journal
.
This violent satire on Scottish See also:influence See also:fell in with the current hatred of See also:Lord See also:Bute, and the Scottish See also:place-hunters were as much alarmed as the actors had been
.
When Wilkes was arrested he gave Churchill a timely hint to retire to the See also:country for a time, the publisher, Kearsley, having stated that he received part of the profits from the paper
.
His Epistle to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hogarth (1763) was in See also:answer to the See also:caricature of Wilkes made during the trial
.
In it Hogarth's vanity and envy were attacked in an invective which Garrick quoted as " shocking and barbarous." Hogarth retaliated by a caricature of Churchill as a See also:bear in torn clerical bands hugging a pot of See also:porter and a See also:club made of lies and North Britons
.
The Duellist (1763) is a virulent satire on the most active opponents of Wilkes in the House of Lords, especially on See also:Bishop See also:Warburton
.
He attacked Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson among others in The See also:Ghost as " Pomposo,
insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling See also:crowd." Other
poems are " The See also:Conference " (1763); " The Author " (1763),
highly praised by Churchill's contemporaries; " See also:Gotham (1764), a poem on the duties of a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, didactic rather than satiric in See also:tone; " The See also:Candidate " (1764), a satire on John See also:Montagu, See also:fourth See also:earl of See also:Sandwich, one of Wilkes's bitterest enemies, whom he had already denounced for his treachery in the Duellist (Bk. iii.) as " too infamous to have a friend "; " The Farewell " (1764); " The Times " (1764); " See also:Independence," and an unfinished " See also:Journey."
In See also:October 1764 he went to See also:Boulogne to join Wilkes
.
There he was attacked by a See also:fever of which he died on the 4th of See also:November
.
He See also:left his See also:property to his two sons, and made Wilkes his See also:literary executor with full See also:powers
.
Wilkes did little
.
He wrote an See also:epitaph for his friend and about See also:half a dozen notes on his poems, and See also:Andrew See also:Kippis acknowledges some slight assistance from him in preparing his life of Churchill for the Biographia Britannica (178o)
.
There is more than one instance of Churchill's generosity to his See also:friends
.
In 1763 he found his friend Robert Lloyd in See also:prison for debt
.
He paid a See also:guinea a See also:week for his better See also:maintenance in the Fleet, and raised a subscription to set him free
.
Lloyd fell See also:ill on See also:receipt of the See also:news of Churchill's See also:death, and died shortly afterwards
.
Churchill's See also:sister Patty, who was engaged to Lloyd, did not See also:long survive them
.
William See also:Cowper was his schoolfellow, and left many kindly references to him
.
A partial collection of Churchill's poems appeared in 1763
.
They are included in See also:Chalmers's edition of the English poets, and were edited (1804) by W
.
See also:Tooke
.
This was reprinted in the Aldine edition (1844)
.
There is a revised edition (1892) in the same See also:series, The Poetical See also:Works of See also:Charles Churchill, with a Memoir by J
.
L
.
See also:Hannay and copious notes by W
.
Tooke
.
For Churchill's See also:biography,
see Genuine See also:Memoirs of Charles Churchill, with an account of and observations on his writings; together witk some See also:Original letters
..
. between him and the author (1765) ; A
.
Kippis, in Biographia Britannica (1780) ; also John See also:Forster in the See also:Edinburgh Review (See also:January 1845)
.
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