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See also: CLIVE, See also:CATHERINE [KITTY] (1711-1785) , See also:British actress, was See also:born, probably in See also:London, in 1711. Her See also:father, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Raftor, an Irishman of See also:good See also:family but small means, had held a See also:captain's See also:commission in the See also:French See also:army under See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. From her earliest years she showed a See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for the See also:stage, and about 1728 became a member of the See also:company at See also:Drury See also:Lane, of which See also:Colley See also:Cibber was then manager. Her first See also:part was that of the See also:page Ismenes (" with a See also:song ") in the tragedy Milhridates. Shortly afterwards she married See also:George Clive, a See also:barrister and a relative of the 1st See also:Lord Clive, but See also:husband and wife soon separated by mutual consent. In 1731 she definitely established her reputation as a comic actress and See also:singer in See also:Charles Coffey's See also:farce-See also:opera See also:adaptation, The See also:Devil to Pay, and from this 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 she was always a popular favourite. She acted little outside Drury Lane, where in 1747 she became one of the See also:original
members of See also:Garrick's company. She took part, however, in some of the oratorios of See also:Handel, whose friend she was. In 1769, having been a member of Garrick's company for twenty-two years, she quitted the stage, and lived for sixteen years in retirement at a See also:villa at See also:Twickenham, which had been given her some time previously by her friend See also:Horace See also:Walpole. Mrs Clive had small claim to good looks, but as an actress of broad See also:comedy she was unreservedly praised by See also:Goldsmith, 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 Garrick. She had a See also:quick See also:temper, which on various occasions involved her in quarrels, and at times sorely tried the See also:patience of Garrick, but her private See also:life remained above suspicion, and she regularly supported her father and his family. She died at Twickenham on the 6th of See also:December 1785. Horace Walpole placed in his See also: garden an See also:urn to her memory, bearing an inscription, of which the last two lines run:
" The comic muse with her retired
And See also:shed a See also:tear when she expired."
See See also:Percy See also:Fitzgerald, Life of Mrs Catherine Clive (1888) ; W. R. Chetwood, See also:General See also:History of the Stage (1749); 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 See also:Davies, See also:Memoirs of the Life of See also:David Garrick (1784).
End of Article: CLIVE, CATHERINE [KITTY] (1711-1785)
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