See also:ARTHUR See also:MURPHY (1727–1805)
, Irish actor and dramatist, son of a See also:Dublin See also:merchant, was See also:born at Clomquin, See also:Roscommon, on the 27th of See also:December 1727
.
From 1738 to 1744, under the name of See also:Arthur See also:French, he was a student at the See also:English See also:college at St Omer
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He entered the counting-See also:house of a merchant at See also:Cork on recommendation of his See also:uncle, Jeffery French, in 1747
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A refusal to go to See also:Jamaica alienated French's See also:interest, and See also:Murphy exchanged his situation for one in See also:London
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By the autumn of 1752 he was See also:publishing the See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn See also:Journal, a periodical in the See also:style of the Spectator
.
Two years later he became an actor, and appeared in the See also:title-roles of See also:Richard III. and Othello; as See also:Biron in See also:Southerne's Fatal See also:Marriage; and as Osmyn in See also:Congreve's See also:Mourning See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride
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His first See also:farce, The Apprentice, was given at See also:Drury See also:Lane on the 2nd of See also:January 1756
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It was followed, among other plays, by The See also:Upholsterer (1957), The See also:Orphan of See also:China (1759), The Way to Keep Him (176o), All in the Wrong (1761), The Grecian Daughter (1772), and Know Your Own Mind (1777)
.
These were almost all adaptations from the French, and were very successful, securing for their author both fame and See also:wealth
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Murphy edited a See also:political periodical, called the Test, in support of 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:Fox, by whose See also:influence he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's Inn, although he had been refused at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1757 on See also:account of his connexion with the See also:stage
.
Murphy also wrote a See also:biography of See also:Fielding, an See also:essay on the See also:life and See also:genius of See also:Samuel 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 and See also:translations of See also:Sallust and See also:Tacitus
.
Towards the See also:close of his life the 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 of a See also:commissioner of bankrupts and a See also:pension of £200 were conferred upon him by See also:government
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He died on the 18th of See also:June 1805
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