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Henry Colley (1648–1719) was an Irish Member of Parliament. Henry Colley, born in 1648, was the son of Dudley Colley, MP for Philipstown, and the former...

Addison and Richard Steele. He was the eldest son of Henry Brett of Cowley, Gloucestershire. Colley Cibber, who was a close friend, says that the young...

Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III William Congreve – The...

Thomas Colley Grattan (1792 – 4 July 1864) was an Irish novelist, poet, historian and diplomat. Born in Dublin, he was educated for the law, but did not...

Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the...

Anne and her court. Oldfield became one of Drury Lane's leading actresses. Colley Cibber acknowledged that she had as much as he to do with the success of...

Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992; p. 25. Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, With an Historical...

the stage, making only one reappearance at Betterton's benefit in 1709. Colley Cibber described Bracegirdle in his autobiography as she appeared in 1690...

Torres Villarroel – Correo del otro mundo al gran Piscator de Salamanca Colley Cibber – Caesar in Aegypt Augustin Nadal – Mariamne Gabriel Odingsells –...

that had set out to escort the mail convoy. Colley had been forced to leave behind many of the wounded to die of exposure. In the space of ten days, he...

married Ann Colley, the sister of Wesley's grandfather Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington (1690–1758). This Wesley had been born Richard Colley, but had...

Steele, Susanna Centlivre, and Colley Cibber. Lintot went into semi-retirement in 1730. From that point on, his son, Henry Lintot, ran the publishing business...

Sense of Pity for the Distress't." In his autobiography, many years later, Colley Cibber recalled the power of her voice: "When distress of Tenderness possess'd...

Richard Iii, Alter'd From Shakespeare (1699) is a history play written by Colley Cibber. It is based on William Shakespeare's Richard III, but reworked for...

titles by his grandson Henry, who became the 2nd Earl. His widow Lady Uxbridge died on 2 September 1749. Colley p.62 "PAGET, Hon. Henry (1663-1743), of Beaudesert...

Labourer Christian Dietrich Grabbe – Herzog Theodor von Gotland Thomas Colley Grattan – Ben Nazir James Kenney – Forget and Forgive Thomas Morton – A...

by Thomas Dilke (1698) Cleontes in Xerxes by Colley Cibber (1699) Spinola in The Princess of Parma by Henry Smith (1699) Lorenzo in False Friend by Mary...

the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain. Colley Cibber becomes an actor with the Drury Lane company. Nicholas Barbon – A...

highly successful professional playwright. A similarly renowned playwright, Colley Cibber, was accused of borrowing parts of Love at a Venture to write his...

Nicholls (born 1975) Lucy Skaer (born 1975) Amanda Ansell (born 1976) Reuben Colley (born 1976) Adelaide Damoah (born c.1977) Maryam Hashemi (born 1977) Conrad...