See also:MARK See also:LEMON (1809-1870)
, editor of See also:Punch, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:November 1809
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He had a natural See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for journalism and the See also:stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the See also:writing of plays
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More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London
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At the same 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 he contributed to a variety of magazines and See also:newspapers, and founded and edited the 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
.
In 1841 See also:Lemon and 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:Mayhew conceived the See also:idea of a humorous weekly See also:paper to be called Punch, and when the first number was issued, in See also:July 1841, were See also:joint-editors and, with the printer and engraver, equal owners
.
The paper was for some time unsuccessful, Lemon keeping it alive out of the profits of his plays
.
On the See also:sale of Punch Lemon became See also:sole editor for the new proprietors, and it remained under his See also:control until his See also:death, achieving remarkable popularity and See also:influence
.
Lemon was an actor of ability, a pleasing lecturer and a successful impersonator of Shakespearian characters
.
He also wrote a See also:host of novelettes and lyrics, over a See also:hundred songs, a few three-See also:volume novels, several See also:Christmas See also:fairy tales and a volume of jests
.
He died at Crawley, See also:Sussex, on the 23rd of May 1870
.
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