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:

• THOMAS HOLCROFT (1745-1809)

HOLCROFT (1745-1809)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English dramatist and See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1745 (old See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style) in See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

Orange See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court, See also:

• LEICESTER
• LEICESTER, EARLS OF
• LEICESTER, ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL
• LEICESTER, ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF (1563-1626)
• LEICESTER, THOMAS WILLIAM COKE, EARL OF (1754-1842)

Leicester See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields, See also:

• LONDON

London . His See also:

• FATHER

father, besides having a shoemaker's See also:

• SHOP

shop, kept See also:

• RIDING

riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced ultimately to the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of hawking pedlary . The son accompanied his parents in their tramps, and succeeded in procuring the situation of See also:

• STABLE

stable boy at See also:

• NEWMARKET

Newmarket, where he spent his evenings chiefly in miscellaneous See also:

• READING

reading and the study of See also:

• MUSIC

music . Gradually he obtained a knowledge of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian . At the end of his See also:

• TERM

term of engagement as stable boy he returned to assist his father, who had again resumed his See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of shoemaker in London; but after marrying in 1765, he became a teacher in a small school in See also:

• LIVERPOOL
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS
• LIVERPOOL, EARLS OF

Liverpool . He failed in an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to set up a private school, and became prompter in a See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre . He acted in various strolling companies until 1778, when he produced The Crisis; or, Love and See also:

• FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

Famine, at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane . Duplicity followed in 1781 . Two years later he went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris as correspondent of the See also:

• MORNING

Morning See also:

• HERALD (O. Fr. heraut, herault; the origin is uncertain, but O.H.G. heren, to call, or hariwald, leader of an army, have been proposed; the Gr. equivalent is Kddpvi : Lat. praeco, caduceator, fetialis)

Herald . Here he attended the performances of See also:

• BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE (1732-1799)

Beaumarchais's Mariage de See also:

• FIGARO

Figaro until he had memorized the whole . The See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of it, with the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title The Follies of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

Day, was produced at Drury Lane in 1784 . The Road to Ruin, his most successful See also:

• MELODRAMA (a coined word from Gr. µEXos, music, and Spaµa, action)

melodrama, was produced in 1792 .

A revival in 1873 ran for 118 nights . See also:

• HOLCROFT, THOMAS (1745-1809)

Holcroft died on the 23rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 18og . He was a member of the Society for Constitutional See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

Information, and on that See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account was, in 1794, indicted of high See also:

• TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason, but was discharged without a trial . Among his novels may be mentioned Alwyn(178o), an account, largely autobiographical, of a strolling comedian, and See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh Trevor (1794-1797) . He also was the author of Travels from See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg through See also:

• WESTPHALIA (Ger. Westfalen)
• WESTPHALIA, TREATY OF

Westphalia, See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland and the See also:

• NETHERLANDS

Netherlands to Paris, of some volumes of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse and of See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from the French and German . His See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs written by Himself and continued down to the 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 of his See also:

• DEATH

Death, from his See also:

• DIARY

Diary, Notes and other Papers, by 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:

• HAZLITT, WILLIAM (1778-1830)

Hazlitt, appeared in 1816, and was reprinted, in a slightly abridged See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, in 1852 .