JAMES TOWNLEY (1714-1778)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V27,
Page 111
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
English dramatist, second son of Charles Townley, merchant, was born in London on the 6th of May 1714
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Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at St John's College, See also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
, he took holy orders, being ordained priest on the 28th of May 1738
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He was lecturer at St Dunstan's in the East, chaplain to the lord mayor, then under- master at Merchant Taylors' School until 1753, when he became grammar master at Christ's Hospital
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In 1760 he became head master of Merchant Taylors' School, where in 1762 and 1763 he revived the custom of dramatic performances
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He retained his head-mastership until his death on the 5th of July 1778
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He took a keen interest in the theatre, and it has been asserted that many of David Garrick's best productions and revivals owed much to his assistance
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He was the author, although the fact was long concealed, of High Life below Stairs, a two- act farce presented at Drury Lane on the 31st of October 1759; also of False Concord (Covent Garden, March 20, 1764) and The Tutor (Drury Lane, Feb
.
4, 1765)
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