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See also:KENNEY, 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 (178o-1849) , See also:English dramatist, was the son of James Kenney, one of the founders of Boodles' See also:Club in See also:London. His first See also:play, a See also:farce called Raising the See also:Wind (1803), was a success owing to the popularity of the See also:character of " See also:Jeremy Diddler." Kenney produced more than See also:forty dramas and operas between 1803 and 1845, and many of his pieces, in which Mrs See also:Siddons, Madame See also:Vestris, See also:Foote, See also:Lewis, See also:Liston and other leading players appeared from 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 to time, enjoyed a considerable See also:vogue. His most popular play was Sweethearts and Wives, produced at the Haymarket See also:theatre in 1823, and several times afterwards revived; and among the most successful of his other See also:works were : False Alarms (1807), a comic See also:opera with See also:music by See also:Braham; Love, See also:Law and Physic (1812); See also:Spring and Autumn (1827); The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried (1827); See also:Masaniello (1829); The Sicilian See also:Vespers, a tragedy (184o). Kenney, who numbered See also:Charles See also:Lamb and See also:Samuel See also:Rogers among his See also:friends, died in London on the 25th of See also:July 1849. He married the widow of the dramatist 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:Holcroft, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.
His second son, CHARLES LAMB KENNEY (1823-1881), made a name as a journalist, dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer. Commencing See also:life as a clerk in the See also:General See also:Post 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 in London, he joined the See also:staff of The Times, to which See also:paper he contributed dramatic See also:criticism. In 1856, having been called to the See also:bar, he became secretary to See also:Ferdinand de See also:Lesseps, and in 1857 he published The See also:Gates of the See also:East in support of the projected construction of the See also:Suez See also:Canal. Kenney wrote the words for a numberof See also:light operas, and was the author of several popular songs, the best known of which were " Soft and See also:Low " (1865) and " The Vagabond'' (1871). He also published a Memoir of M. W. See also:Balfe (1875), and translated the See also:Correspondence of See also:Balzac He included See also:Thackeray and See also:Dickens among his friends in a See also:literary coterie in which he enjoyed the reputation of a wit and an accomplished writer of vers de societe. He died in London on the 25th of See also:August 1881.
See See also:John Genest, Some See also:Account of the English See also:Stage, 1660–1830, vols. vii. and viii. (10 vols., London, 1832); P. W. Clayden, See also:Roger.' and his Contemporaries (2 vols., London, 1889) ; See also:Diet.
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