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See also:FITZBALL, See also:EDWARD (1792—1873) , See also:English dramatist, whose real patronymic was See also:Ball, was See also:born at Burwell, See also:Cambridge-See also:shire, in 1792. His See also:father was a well-to-do See also:farmer, and Fitzball, after receiving his schooling at See also:Newmarket, was apprenticed to a See also:Norwich printer in 1809. He produced some dramatic pieces at the See also:local See also:theatre, and eventually the marked success of his Innkeeper of See also:Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (182o), together with the friendly See also:acceptance of one of his pieces at the See also:Surrey theatre by 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:Dibdin, induced him to See also:settle in See also:London. During the next twenty-five years he produced a See also:great number of plays, most of which were highly successful. He had a See also:special 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 nautical See also:drama. His Floating See also:Beacon (Surrey theatre, 19th of See also:April 1824) ran for 140 nights, and his See also:Pilot (Adelphi, 1825) for 200 nights. His greatest See also:triumph in See also:melodrama was perhaps See also:Jonathan See also:Bradford, or the See also:Murder at the Roadside See also:Inn (Surrey theatre, 12th of See also:June 1833). He was at one 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 stock dramatist and reader of plays at Covent See also:Garden, and afterwards at See also:Drury See also:Lane. He had a considerable reputation as a See also:song-writer and as a librettist in See also:opera. The last years of his See also:life were spent in retirement at See also:Chatham, where he died on the 27th of See also:October 1873.
His autobiography, See also:Thirty-Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life (2 vols., 1859), is a naive See also:record of his career. See also:Numbers of his plays are printed in See also:Cumberland's See also:Minor See also:British Theatre, See also:Dick's See also:Standard Plays and See also:Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays.
End of Article: FITZBALL, EDWARD (1792—1873)
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