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See also:WOLCOT, See also:JOHN (1738-1819) , See also:English satirist and poet, known under the See also:pseudonym of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER See also:PINDAR, was the son of See also:Alexander Wolcot, surgeon at Dodbrooke, adjoining See also:Kingsbridge, in See also:Devonshire, and was baptized there on the 9th of May 1738. He was educated at Kingsbridge See also:free school, at the See also:Bodmin and See also:Liskeard See also:grammar See also:schools, and in See also:France. For seven years he was apprenticed to his See also:uncle, John Wolcot, a surgeon at See also:Fowey, and he took his degree of M.D. at See also:Aberdeen in 1767. In 1769 he was ordained, and went to See also:Jamaica with his uncle's patient, See also:Sir 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:Trelawny, the new See also:governor. In 1772 he became See also:incumbent of See also:Vere, Jamaica, but on the See also:death of his See also:patron (11th of See also:December 1772) he returned to See also:England, and settled as a physician at See also:Truro. In 1781 Wolcot went to See also:London, and took with him the See also:young Cornish artist, John See also:Opie, whose talents in See also:painting he had been the first to recognize. Before they See also:left See also:Cornwall Opie apparently made a rash engagement to See also:share his profits with Wolcot, but a See also:breach between them occurred soon after they settled in London. Wolcot had already achieved some success in a Supplicating See also:Epistle to the Reviewers (1778), and after his See also:settlement in London he threw off with marvellous rapidity a See also:succession of pungent satires. See also:George III. was his favourite subject of ridicule, and his peculiarities were described or distorted in The Lousiad (1785), Peeps at St 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's (1787) and The Royal Visit to See also:Exeter. Two of Wolcot's happiest satires on the " See also:farmer 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 " depicted the royal survey of See also:Whitbread's brewery, and the king's naive wonder how the apples got into the See also:apple dumplings. In his Expostulatory Odes (1789) he eulogized the See also:prince of See also:Wales. See also:Boswell's See also:biography of 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 was ridiculed in An Epistle to James Boswell (1786), and in the same See also:year followed another piece, called Bozzy and See also:Piozzi. Other subjects were found in Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks and the See also:Emperor of See also:Morocco (1790), and a Complimentary Epistle to James See also:Bruce (1790). Among his See also:early satires were Lyric Odes to the Academicians (1782), and another See also:series on the same subject, Farewell Odes (1786). He specially attacked See also:Benjamin See also:West, but expressed See also:great admiration for the landscapes of Gains-See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough and See also:Richard See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson. Wolcot was himself no mean artist, and in 1797 appeared Six Picturesque Views from Paintings by Peter Pindar, engraved by Alken. In 1795 he disposed of his See also:works to the booksellers for an See also:annuity of £250. His
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various pieces were published in 1796 in four See also:octavo volumes and often reprinted. Wolcot cared little whether he See also:hit above or below the See also:belt, and the See also:gross vituperation he indulged in spoils much of his See also:work for See also:present-See also:day readers; but he had a broad sense of See also:humour, a keen See also:eye for the ridiculous, and great felicity of imagery and expression. Some of his serious pieces--his rendering of 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:Warton's See also:epigram on See also:Sleep and his See also:Lord See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory, for example—reveal an unexpected fund of genuine tenderness. In William See also:Gifford, who attacked him in the Epistle to P. Pindar, he for once met with more than his match. Wolcot made a See also:personal See also:assault on his enemy in See also:Wright's See also:shop in Piccadilly, but Gifford was too See also:quick for him, and Wolcot was soundly thrashed. He died at Latham See also:Place, See also:Somers See also:Town, London, on the 14th of See also:January 1819, and seven days later was buried, as he had desired, near See also:Samuel See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler, the author of Hudibras, in St See also:Paul's, Covent See also:Garden.
Polwhele, the Cornish historian, was well acquainted with Wolcot in his early See also:life, and the best See also:account of his See also:residence in the west is found In vol. i. of Polwhele's Traditions and in Polwhele's See also:Biographical Sketches, vol. ii. See also:Cyrus Redding was a frequent visitor at the old See also:man's See also:house, and has described Wolcot's later days in his Past Celebrities, vol. i., and his Fifty Years' Recollections, vols. i. and ii.
End of Article: WOLCOT, JOHN (1738-1819)
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