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See also:ALLEYN, See also:EDWARD (1566-1626) , See also:English actor and founder of See also:Dulwich See also:College, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:September 1566, the son of an innkeeper. It is not known at what date he began to See also:act, but he certainly gained distinction in his calling while a See also:young See also:man, for in 1586 his name was on the See also:list of the See also:earl of See also:Worcester's players, and he was eventually rated by See also:common consent as the foremost actor of his 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. See also:Ben See also:Jonson, a critic little prone to exalt the merits of men of See also:mark among his contemporaries, bestowed unstinted praise on Alleyn's acting (Epigrams, No. 89). See also:Nash expresses in See also:prose, in See also:Pierce Penniless, his admiration of him, while See also:Heywood calls him
'See also:Egerton See also:MSS., Brit. See also:Mus. 2807 f. 197 b; See also:Life of Dr See also:John Barwick, ed. by G. F. Barwick (1903), pp. 107, 129, 134." inimitable," " the best of actors," " See also:Proteus for shapes and Roscius for a See also:tongue." Alleyn inherited See also:house See also:property in Bishopsgate from his See also:father. His See also:marriage on the 22nd of See also:October 1592 with See also:Joan See also:Woodward, stepdaughter of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Henslowe; brought him eventually more See also:wealth. He became See also:part owner in Henslowe's ventures, and in the end See also:sole proprietor of several See also:play-houses and other profitable See also:pleasure resorts. Among these were the See also:Rose See also:Theatre at Bankside, the See also:Paris See also:Garden and the See also:Fortune Theatre in St See also:Luke's—the latter occupied by the earl of See also:Nottingham's See also:company, of which Alleyn was the See also:head. He filled, too, in See also:conjunction with Henslowe, the See also:post of " See also:master of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:games of bears, bulls and See also:dogs." On some occasions he directed the See also:sport in See also:person, and See also:Stow in his See also:Chronicles gives an See also:account of how Alleyn baited a See also:lion before 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)
James I. at the See also:Tower.
Alleyn's connexion with Dulwich began in 16o5, when he bought the See also:manor of Dulwich from See also:Sir See also:Francis Calton. The landed property, of which the entire See also:estate had not passed into Alleyn's hands earlier than 1614, stretched from the See also:crest of that range of See also:Surrey hills on whose See also:summit now stands the Crystal See also:Palace, to the crest of the parallel See also:ridge, three See also:miles nearer London, known in its several portions as See also:Herne See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:Denmark Hill and See also:Champion Hill. Alleyn acquired this large property for little more than £1o,000. He had barely got full See also:possession, however, before the question how to dispose of it began to occupy him. He was still childless, after twenty years of wedded life. Then it was that the prosperous player-the man " so acting to the life that he made any part to become him " (See also:Fuller, Worthies)—began the task of See also:building and endowing in his own lifetime the College of See also:God's See also:Gift at Dulwich. All was completed in 1617 except the See also:charter or See also:deed of in-See also:corporation for setting his lands in See also:mortmain. Tedious delays occurred in the See also:Star Chamber, where See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon was scheming to bring the pressure of kingly authority to See also:bear on Alleyn with the aim of securing a large portion of the proposed endowment for the See also:maintenance of lectureships at 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
Oxford and See also:Cambridge. Alleyn finally carried his point and the College of God's Gift at Dulwich was founded, and endowed under letters patent of James I., dated the 21st of See also:June 1619. The building had been already begun in 1613 (see Du1.wlcn). Alleyn was never a member of his own See also:foundation, but he continued to the See also:close of his life to See also:guide and See also:control its affairs under See also:powers reserved to himself in the letters patent. His See also:diary shows that he mixed much and intimately in the life of the college. Many of the jottings in that curious See also:record of daily doings and incidents favour the inference that he was a genial, See also:kind, amiable and religious man. His fondness for his old profession is indicated by the fact that he engaged the boys in occasional theatrical performances. At a festive gathering on the 6th of See also:January 1622 " the boyes play'd a playe."
Alleyn's first wife died in 1623. The same See also:year he married See also:Constance, daughter of John See also:Donne, the poet and See also:dean of St See also:Paul's. Alleyn died in See also:November 1626 and was buried in the See also:chapel of the college which he had founded. His gravestone fixes the See also:day of his See also:death as the 21st, but there are grounds for the belief that it was the 25th. A portrait of the actor is preserved at Dulwich. Alleyn was a member of the corporation of wardens of St Saviour's, See also:Southwark, in 161o, and there is a memorial window to him in the See also:cathedral.
End of Article: ALLEYN, EDWARD (1566-1626)
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