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See also:COLMAN, See also:GEORGE (1732–1794) , See also:English dramatist and essayist, usually called " the See also:Elder," and sometimes "George the First," to distinguish him from his son, was See also:born in 1732 at See also:Florence, where his See also:father was stationed as See also:resident at the See also:court of the See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Tuscany. Colman's father died within a See also:year of his son's See also:birth, and the boy's See also:education was undertaken by 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 Pulteney, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Bath, whose wife was Mrs Colman's See also:sister. After attending a private school in Marylebone, he was sent to See also:Westminster School, which he See also:left in due course for See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, 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. Here he made the acquaintance of Bonnell See also:Thornton, the parodist, and together they founded The Connoisseur (1754–1756), a periodical which, although it reached its 14oth number, "wanted See also:weight," as 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 said. He left Oxford after taking his degree in 1755, and, having been entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn before his return to See also:London, he was called to the See also:bar in 1757. A friendship formed with See also:David See also:Garrick did not help his career as a See also:barrister, but he continued to practise until the See also:death of Lord Bath, out of respect for his wishes.
In 176o he produced his first See also:play, Polly See also:Honeycomb, which met with See also:great success. In 1761 The Jealous Wife, a See also:comedy partly founded on Tom See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, made Colman famous. The death of Lord Bath in 1764 placed him in See also:possession of See also:independent means. In 1765 appeared his metrical See also:translation of the plays of See also:Terence; and in 1766 he produced The Clandestine See also:Marriage, jointly with Garrick, whose refusal to take the See also:part of Lord Ogleby led to a See also:quarrel between the two authors. In the next year he See also:purchased a See also:fourth See also:share in the Covent See also:Garden See also:Theatre, a step which is said to have induced See also:General Pulteney to revoke a will by which he had left Colman large estates. The general, who died in that year, did, however, leave him a considerable See also:annuity. Colman was acting manager of Covent Garden for seven years, and during that See also:period he produced several "adapted" plays of See also:Shakespeare. In 1768 he was elected to the See also:Literary See also:Club, then nominally consisting of twelve members. In 1774 he sold his share in the great playhouse, which had involved him in much litigation with his partners, to See also:Leake; and three years later he purchased of See also:Samuel See also:Foote, then broken in See also:health and See also:spirits, the little theatre in the Haymarket. He was attacked with See also:paralysis in1785; in 1789 his See also:brain became affected, and he died on the 14th of See also:August 1794. Besides the See also:works already cited, Colman was author of adaptations of See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's Bonduca, See also:Ben See also:Jonson's Epicoene, See also:Milton's See also:Comus, and of other plays. He also produced an edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1778), a version of the Ars Poetica of See also:Horace, an excellent translation from the See also:Mercator of See also:Plautus for Bonnell Thornton's edition (1769–1772), some See also:thirty plays, many parodies and occasional pieces. An incomplete edition of his dramatic works was published in 1777 in four volumes.
His son, GEORGE COLMAN (1762-1836), known as "the Younger," English dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was born on the 21st of See also:October 1762. He passed from Westminster school to Christ Church, Oxford, and 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:College, See also:Aberdeen, and was finally entered as a student of See also:law at Lincoln's Inn, London. While in Aberdeen he published a poem satirizing See also:Charles 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 See also:Fox, called The See also:Man of the See also:People; and in 1782 he produced, at his father's playhouse in the Haymarket, his first play, The See also:Female Dramatist, for which See also:Smollett's See also:Roderick See also:Random supplied the materials. It was unanimously condemned, but Two to One (1784) was entirely successful. It was followed by Turk and no Turk (1785), a musical comedy; Inkle and Yarico (1787), an See also:opera; Ways and Means (1788); The See also:Iron See also:Chest (1796), taken from William See also:Godwin's Adventures of See also:Caleb See also:Williams; The Poor See also:Gentleman (1802); See also:John See also:Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside (1803), his most successful piece; The See also:Heir at Law (r8o8), which enriched the See also:stage with one immortal See also:character, "Dr Pangloss," and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the See also:French.
The failing health of the elder Colman obliged him to relinquish the management of the Haymarket theatre in 1789, when the younger George succeeded him, at a yearly See also:salary of goo. On the death of the father the patent was continued to the son; but difficulties arose in his way, he was involved in litigation with 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:Harris, and was unable to pay the expenses of the performances at the Haymarket. He was forced to take See also:sanctuary within the Rules of the King's See also:Bench. Here he resided for many years continuing to See also:direct the affairs of his theatre. Released at last through the kindness of George IV., who had appointed him exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, a dignity disposed of by Colman to the highest See also:bidder, he was made examiner of plays by the duke of See also:Montrose, then lord See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain. This 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, to the disgust of all contemporary dramatists, to whose See also:MSS. he was as illiberal as he was severe, he held till his death. Although his own productions were open to charges of indecency and See also:profanity, he was so severe a See also:censor of others that he would not pass even such words as "See also:heaven," "See also:providence" or "See also:angel." His comedies are a curious mixture of genuine comic force and sentimentality. A collection of them was published (1827) in See also:Paris, with a See also:life of the author, by J. W. See also:Lake.
Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great See also:deal of so-called humorous See also:poetry (mostly coarse, though much of it was popular)—My See also:Night See also:Gown and Slippers (1797), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802; and Poetical Vagaries (1812). Some of his writings were published under the assumed name of See also:Arthur Griffinhood of Turnham See also:Green. He died in See also:Brompton, London, on the 17th of October 1836. He had, as See also:early as 1784, contracted a runaway marriage with an actress, See also:Clara See also:Morris, to whose See also:brother David Morris, he eventually disposed of his share in the Haymarket theatre. Many of the leading parts in his plays were written especially for Mrs See also:Gibbs (nee See also:Logan), whom he was said to have secretly married after the death of his first wife.
See the second George Colman's See also:memoirs of his early life, entitled Random Records (1830), and R. B. Peake, Memoirs of the Colman See also:Family (1842).
End of Article: COLMAN, GEORGE (1732–1794)
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