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See also:TOBIN, See also:JOHN (1770-18o4) , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury on the 28th of See also:January 1770, the son of a See also:merchant. He was educated at See also:Bristol See also:Grammar School, and practised in See also:London as a See also:solicitor. From 1789 he devoted all his spare 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 See also:writing for the See also:stage. He submitted no fewer than thirteen plays before, in 1803, he got an unimportant See also:farce staged. In 1804, having just submitted his fourteenth See also:play, a romantic See also:blank See also:verse See also:drama entitled The See also:Honey See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
Moon, to the See also:Drury See also:Lane management, he came to the conclusion that it was useless to continue playwriting and See also:left London to recruit his See also:health. The See also:news that his play had been accepted came too See also:late. He had See also:long had a tendency to See also:consumption, and was ordered to See also:winter in the See also:West Indies. He left See also:England on the 7th of See also:December 1804, but died on the first See also:day of the voyage. In the following See also:year The Honey Moon was produced at Drury Lane, and proved a See also:great success. Several of Tobin's earlier plays were subsequently produced, of which The School for Authors, a See also:comedy, was probably the best.
See also The See also:Memoirs of John Tobin, with a selection from his unpublished writings, by See also:Miss Benger (London, 1820).
End of Article: TOBIN, JOHN (1770-18o4)
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