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DANCE
, the name of an See also:English See also:family distinguished in See also:architecture, See also:art and the See also:drama
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See also:GEORGE DANCE, the See also:elder (1700-1768), obtained the See also:appointment of architect to the See also:city of See also:London, and designed the See also:Mansion See also:House (1739) ; the churches of St Botolph, Aldgate (1741), St See also:Luke's, Old See also:Street; St Leonard, See also:Shoreditch; the old See also:excise See also:office; Broad Street; and other public See also:works of importance
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He died on the 8th of See also:February 1768
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His eldest son, See also:
Himself a See also:rich See also:man, in 1790 he married a widow with £15,000 a See also:year, dropped his profession, and became M.P. for See also:East Grinstead, taking the additional name of Holland
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He was made a See also:baronet in 1800
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He died on the 15th of See also:October 1811, leaving a See also:fortune of £200,000
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George Dance's fifth and youngest son, GEORGE DANCE, the younger (1741-1825), succeeded his See also:father as city surveyor and architect in 1768
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He was then only twenty-seven, had spent several years abroad, chiefly in Italy with his See also:brother Nathaniel, and had already distinguished himself by designs for Blackfriars See also:Bridge sent to the 1761 exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists
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His first important public See also:work was the rebuilding of Newgate See also:prison in 1770
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The front of the See also:Guildhall was also his
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He, too, was a foundation member of the Royal Academy, and for a number of years the last survivor of the See also:forty See also:original academicians
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His last years were devoted to art rather than to architecture, and after 1798 his Academy contributions consisted solely of See also:chalk portraits of his See also:friends, seventy-two of which were engraved and published (1808-1814)
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He resigned his office in 1815, and after many years of illness died on the 14th of See also:January 1825, and was buried in St See also:Paul's
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His son, See also: R . See also:Planche and others, or alone, he wrote a great number of extravaganzas, farces and comediettas . He was one of the first, if not the first, of the See also:burlesque writers, and was the author of those produced so successfully by Madame See also:Vestris for years at the Olympic . Of his farces, Delicate Ground, Who Speaks First?, A See also:Morning See also:Call and others are still occasionally revived . He died on the 6th of January 1863 . |
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