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See also:MURPHY, See also:ARTHUR (1727–1805) , Irish actor and dramatist, son of a See also:Dublin See also:merchant, was See also:born at Clomquin, See also:Roscommon, on the 27th of See also:December 1727. From 1738 to 1744, under the name of Arthur See also:French, he was a student at the See also:English See also:college at St Omer. He entered the counting-See also:house of a merchant at See also:Cork on recommendation of his See also:uncle, Jeffery French, in 1747. A refusal to go to See also:Jamaica alienated French's See also:interest, and Murphy exchanged his situation for one in See also:London. By the autumn of 1752 he was See also:publishing the See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn See also:Journal, a periodical in the See also:style of the Spectator. Two years later he became an actor, and appeared in the See also:title-roles of See also:Richard III. and Othello; as See also:Biron in See also:Southerne's Fatal See also:Marriage; and as Osmyn in See also:Congreve's See also:Mourning See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride. His first See also:farce, The Apprentice, was given at See also:Drury See also:Lane on the 2nd of See also:January 1756. It was followed, among other plays, by The See also:Upholsterer (1957), The See also:Orphan of See also:China (1759), The Way to Keep Him (176o), All in the Wrong (1761), The Grecian Daughter (1772), and Know Your Own Mind (1777). These were almost all adaptations from the French, and were very successful, securing for their author both fame and See also:wealth. Murphy edited a See also:political periodical, called the Test, in support of 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 See also:Fox, by whose See also:influence he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's Inn, although he had been refused at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1757 on See also:account of his connexion with the See also:stage. Murphy also wrote a See also:biography of See also:Fielding, an See also:essay on the See also:life and See also:genius of See also:Samuel 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 and See also:translations of See also:Sallust and See also:Tacitus. Towards the See also:close of his life the 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 of a See also:commissioner of bankrupts and a See also:pension of £200 were conferred upon him by See also:government. He died on the 18th of See also:June 1805.
End of Article: MURPHY, ARTHUR (1727–1805)
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