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See also:BUDGELL, EUSTACE (1686-1737) , See also:English See also:man of letters, the son of Dr. See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert Budgell, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:August 1686 at St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, near See also:Exeter. He matriculated in 1705 at Trinity See also: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
Oxford, and afterwards joined the Inner See also:Temple, See also:London; but instead of studying See also:law he devoted his whole See also:attention to literature. See also:Addison, who was first See also:cousin to his See also:mother, befriended him, and, on being appointed secretary to See also:Lord See also:Wharton, lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland in 1710, took Budgell with him as one of the clerks of his 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. Budgell took See also:part with See also:Steele and Addison in See also:writing the Taller. He was also a contributor to the Spectator and the See also:Guardian, his papers being marked with an X in the former, and with an See also:asterisk in the latter. He was subsequently made under-secretary to Addison, See also:chief secretary to the lords justices of Ireland, and See also:deputy-clerk of the See also:council, and became a member of the Irish See also:parliament. In 1717, when Addison became See also:principal secretary of See also:state in See also:England, he procured for Budgell the See also:place of accountant and See also:comptroller-See also:general of the See also:revenue in Ireland. But the next See also:year, the See also:duke of See also:Bolton being appointed lord-lieutenant, Budgell wrote a See also:lampoon against E. See also:Webster, his secretary. This led to his being removed from his See also:post of accountant-general, upon which he returned to England, and, contrary to the See also:advice of Addison, published his See also:case in a pamphlet. In the year 1720 he lost £20,000 by the See also:South See also:Sea See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme, and afterwards spent £500o more in unsuccessful attempts to get into parliament. He began to write See also:pamphlets against the See also:ministry, and published many papers in the Craftsman. In 1733 he started a weekly periodical called the See also:Bee, which he continued for more than a See also:hundred See also:numbers. By the will of See also:Matthew See also:Tindal, the deist, who died in 1733, a See also:legacy of 2000 guineas was See also:left to Budgell; but the See also:bequest (which had, it was alleged, been inserted in the will by Budgell himself) was successfully disputed by Tindal's See also:nephew and nearest See also:heir, See also:Nicholas Tindal, who translated and wrote a Continuation of the See also:History of England of See also:Paul de See also:Rapin-Thoyras. Hence See also:Pope's lines
" Let Budgell See also:charge See also:low See also:Grub See also:Street on his See also:quill, And write whate'er he pleased—except his will." 1
Budgell is said to have sold the second See also:volume of Tindal's See also:Christianity as Old as the Creation to See also:Bishop See also:Gibson, by whom it was destroyed. The See also:scandal caused by these transactions ruined him. On the 4th of May 1737, after filling his pockets with stones, he took a See also:boat at See also:Somerset-stairs, and while the boat was passing under the See also:bridge threw himself into the See also:river. On his See also:desk was found a slip of See also:paper with the words—" What See also:Cato did, and Addison approved, cannot be wrong." Besides the See also:works mentioned above, he wrote a See also:translation (1714) of the Characters
of See also:Theophrastus. He never married, but left a natural daughter, See also:Anne Eustace, who became an actress at See also:Drury See also:Lane. See See also:Cibber's Lives of the Poets, vol. v.
End of Article: BUDGELL, EUSTACE (1686-1737)
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