See also:CLEMENT See also:MANSFIELD See also:INGLEBY (1823—1886)
, See also:English Shakespearian See also:scholar, was See also:born at Edgbaston, See also:Birmingham, on the 29th of See also:October 1823, the son of a See also:solicitor
.
After taking his degree at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he entered his See also:father's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, eventually becoming a partner
.
In 18J9 he abandoned the See also:law and See also:left Birmingham to live near See also:London
.
He contributed articles on See also:literary, scientific and other subjects to various magazines, but from 1874 devoted himself almost entirely to Shakespearian literature
.
His first See also:work in this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field had been an exposure of the manipulations of See also:John See also:Payne See also:Collier, entitled The See also:Shakespeare Fabrications (1859); his work as a commentator began with The Still See also:Lion (1874), enlarged in the following See also:year into Shakespeare See also:Hermeneutics
.
In this See also:book many of the then existing difficulties of Shakespeare's See also:text were explained
.
In the same year (1875) he published the Centurie of Prayse, a collection of references to Shakespeare and his See also:works between 1592 and 1692
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His Shakespeare: the See also:Man and the Book was published in 1877—1881; he also wrote Shakespeare's Bones (1882), in which he suggested the disinterment of Shakespeare's bones and an examination of his See also:skull
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This See also:suggestion, though not due to vulgar curiosity, was regarded, however, by public See also:opinion as sacrilegious
.
He died on the 26th of See also:September 1886, at See also:Ilford, See also:Essex
.
Although See also:Ingleby's reputation now rests solely on his works on Shakespeare, he wrote on many other subjects
.
He was the author of See also:hand-books on metaphysic and See also:logic, and made some contributions to the study of natural See also:science
.
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