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See also:HOLCROFT, 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 (1745-1809) , See also:English dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born on the loth of See also:December 1745 (old See also:style) in See also:Orange See also:Court, See also:Leicester See also:Fields, See also:London. His See also:father, besides having a shoemaker's See also:shop, kept See also:riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced ultimately to the See also:necessity of hawking pedlary. The son accompanied his parents in their tramps, and succeeded in procuring the situation of See also:stable boy at See also:Newmarket, where he spent his evenings chiefly in miscellaneous See also:reading and the study of See also:music. Gradually he obtained a knowledge of See also:French, See also:German and See also:Italian. At the end of his See also:term of engagement as stable boy he returned to assist his father, who had again resumed his See also:trade of shoemaker in London; but after marrying in 1765, he became a teacher in a small school in See also:Liverpool. He failed in an See also:attempt to set up a private school, and became prompter in a See also:Dublin See also:theatre. He acted in various strolling companies until 1778, when he produced The Crisis; or, Love and See also:Famine, at See also:Drury See also:Lane. Duplicity followed in 1781. Two years later he went to See also:Paris as correspondent of the See also:Morning See also:Herald. Here he attended the performances of See also:Beaumarchais's Mariage de See also:Figaro until he had memorized the whole. The See also:translation of it, with the See also:title The Follies of the See also:Day, was produced at Drury Lane in 1784. The Road to Ruin, his most successful See also:melodrama, was produced in 1792. A revival in 1873 ran for 118 nights. Holcroft died on the 23rd of See also:March 18og. He was a member of the Society for Constitutional See also:Information, and on that See also:account was, in 1794, indicted of high See also:treason, but was discharged without a trial. Among his novels may be mentioned Alwyn(178o), an account, largely autobiographical, of a strolling comedian, and See also:Hugh Trevor (1794-1797). He also was the author of Travels from See also:Hamburg through See also:Westphalia, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and the See also:Netherlands to Paris, of some volumes of See also:verse and of See also:translations from the French and German.
His See also:Memoirs written by Himself and continued down to the 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 of his See also:Death, from his See also:Diary, Notes and other Papers, 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 See also:Hazlitt, appeared in 1816, and was reprinted, in a slightly abridged See also:form, in 1852.
End of Article: HOLCROFT, THOMAS (1745-1809)
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