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See also:WAINEWRIGHT, 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 GRIFFITHS (1794–1852) , See also:English journalist and subject-painter, was See also:born at See also:Chiswick in See also:October 1794. He was educated by his distant relative Dr See also:Charles See also:Burney, and served as an orderly officer in the See also:guards, and as See also:cornet in a See also:yeomanry See also:regiment. In 1819 he entered on a See also:literary See also:life, and began to write for The Literary See also:Pocket-See also:Book, See also:Black-See also:wood's See also:Magazine and The See also:Foreign Quarterly See also:Review. He is, however, most definitely identified with The See also:London Magazine, to which, from 1820 to 1823, he contributed some See also:smart but flippant See also:art and other criticisms, under the signatures of " See also:Janus Weathercock," " Egomet Bonmot " and " Herr Vinkbooms." He was a friend of Charles See also:Lamb—who thought well of his Iiterary productions, and in a See also:letter to See also:Bernard See also:Barton, styles him the " See also:kind, See also:light-hearted Wainewright "—and of the other brilliant contributors to the See also:journal. He also practised as an artist, designing illustrations to See also:Chamberlayne's poems, and from 1821 to 1825 exhibiting in the Royal See also:Academy figure pictures, including a " See also:Romance from Undine," " See also:Paris in the Chamber of See also:Helen " and the "Milkmaid's See also:Song." Owing to his extravagant habits, Wainewright's affairs became deeply involved. In 1830 he insured the life of his See also:sister-in-See also:law in various offices for a sum of 18,000, and when she died, in the See also:December of the same See also:year, See also:payment was refused by the companies on the ground of misrepresentation. Wainewright retired to See also:France, was seized by the authorities as a suspected See also:person, and imprisoned for six months. He had in his See also:possession a quantity of See also:strychnine, and it was afterwards found that he had destroyed, not only his sister-in-law, but also his See also:uncle, his See also:mother-in-law and a See also:Norfolk-See also:shire friend, by this See also:poison. He returned to London in 1837, but was at once arrested on a See also:charge of See also:forging, thirteen years before, a See also:transfer of stock, and was sentenced to transportation for life. He died of poplexy in See also:Hobart See also:Town See also:hospital in 1852.
The Essays and Criticisms of Wainewright were published in 188o, with an See also:account of his life, by W. See also:Carew See also:Hazlitt; and the See also:history of his crimes suggested to See also:Dickens his See also:story of Hunted Down and to Bulwer See also:Lytton his novel of See also:Lucretia. His See also:personality, as artist and poisoner, has interested latter-See also:day writers, notably Oscar See also:Wilde in " See also:Pen, See also:Pencil and Poison " (Fortnightly Review, See also:Jan. 1889), and A. G. See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen, in T. Seccombe's Twelve See also:Bad Men (1894).
End of Article: WAINEWRIGHT, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (1794–1852)
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