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See also:IRELAND, 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:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1777-1835) , forger of Shakespearian See also:manuscripts, was See also:born in See also:London in 1777. His See also:father, See also:Samuel Ireland, was an engraver and author, and dealer in rare books and curios. In 1794 See also:young Ireland, with his father, visited See also:Stratford, where he met See also:John See also:Jordan, a See also:local poet who had published a See also:deal of gossipy See also:matter about See also:Shakespeare and had even forged the will of the poet's father. Seeing his own father's credulous See also:interest, Ireland conceived the See also:idea of doing a little See also:forgery on his own See also:account. He copied, in See also:ink which had all the signs of See also:age, Shakespeare's See also:style and See also:handwriting, and produced leases, contracts with actors, notes, receipts, a profession of faith, and even a love See also:letter to See also:Anne Hathaway with an enclosed See also:lock of See also:hair, to the delight of his unsuspecting father, and the deception of many scholars who attested their belief in the genuineness of his finds. These he accounted for by inventing an ancestor " William Henrye Irelaunde," to whom they had been bequeathed by Shakespeare in gratitude for See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue from drowning. At last the See also:discovery of a whole new See also:play named See also:Vortigern was announced. See also:Sheridan See also:purchased it for See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:Theatre, and an overflowing See also:house assembled on the 2nd of See also:April 1796 to sit in See also:judgment upon it. But away from the glamour of crabbed handwriting and yellow See also:paper, the feeble See also:dialogue and crude conceptions of the tragedy could not stand the test, and its one See also:representation was greeted with shouts of See also:laughter. Its See also:fate prevented the See also:composition of a See also:series of See also:historical plays, of which Henry II. had already been produced by this audacious forger. Samuel Ireland the See also:elder had published in 1795 the See also:Miscellaneous Papers and Legal See also:Instruments under the See also:Hand and See also:Seal of William Shakespeare; including the Tragedy of 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 See also:Lear and a small fragment of See also:Hamlet (dated 1796). He had the fullest belief in their authenticity, but the hostile See also:criticism of See also:Malone and others, and the unsatisfactory account of the source of the papers, made him demand a full disclosure from his son. Harassed by the success of his own deceit, which had carried him far beyond his first intention, Ireland at last confessed his See also:fraud, and published (1796) an See also:Authentic Account of the Shakespearian See also:MSS., and in 18o5, a more elaborate See also:Confession, entirely exculpating his father and making a full See also:admission. The elder Ireland See also:felt the disgrace very bitterly, and it probably hastened his See also:death, which occurred in See also:July 1800. After the exposure Ireland was forced to abandon both his See also:home and his profession. He wrote several novels of no value, gradually sank into penury, and died on the 17th of April 1835.
The more interesting publications on the Ireland forgeries are: Inquiry into the authenticity of certain Papers, &'c., attributed to Shakespeare, by Edmond Malone (1796); the elder Ireland's Vindication of his Conduct (1796); An See also:Apology for the Believers in the Shakespeare Papers (1797), and a Supplemental Apology (1799), both by See also:George See also:Chalmers; and See also:pamphlets by Boaden, Waldron, See also:Wyatt, See also:Webb and Oulton. Vortigern was republished in 1832. The elder Ireland's See also:correspondence with regard to the forgeries is preserved in the See also:British Museum; with numerous specimens of his son's 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. Ireland's career supplied the subject-matter of 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:Payn's novel The Talk of the See also:Town (1885).
End of Article: IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)
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