#Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle

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The Duke of Newcastle's Pique, or, A Good Chef is Hard to Find

The Duke of Newcastle and His Cook (British Museum Print no. 2684) The diarist Samuel Pepys,  no mean observer of human foibles that relieve the monotony of day-to-day human life, recorded — almost in real-time —  the Francophilic transformation of the English nobility after the 1660 Restoration of the Stuart monarchy. Since Pepys devoted a portion of his library to cookery, it’s not surprising…

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Henrietta "Harriet" Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne and Duchess of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1701 – 17 July 1776),was the wife of British statesman and prime minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

She was the daughter of Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, and Henrietta Churchill, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough. She was also the granddaughter of Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, as well as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.

Until her marriage, she was known as Lady Harriet Godolphin. Like her husband, she was a devoted Whig and supporter of the Hanoverian succession. They married on 2 April 1717.

During the 1720s, they became famous for throwing sumptuous parties, a tradition that continued for several decades. These were attended even by her husband's political opponents.

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. . . You are my Eau de Barbade, that intoxicates my spirits without vitiating my taste, and are so much superior to common draught in every particular that one need not blush for being drunk with you...

-Lord John Hervey to his lover Stephen Fox, 1730

(http://rictornorton.co.uk/hervey1.htm)

Detail of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln, by Godfrey Kneller c. 1721

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The Most Noble Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, KG, PC, FRS, sometime Prime Minister 

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AN EXHAUSTIVE RANKING OF EACH PRIME MINISTER OF OUR TIME, ON THE GROUNDS OF HIS BEARING AND PERSONAGE:

21. William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne 20. The Right Honourable George Canning 19. Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 18. The Right Honourable George Grenville 17. William Pitt, “the Elder”, 1st Earl of Chatham 16. The Right Honourable Henry Pelham 15. The Right Honourable Spencer Perceval 14. Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme 13. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington 12. Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon 11. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire 10. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute  9. Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool  8. William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 7. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 6. The Right Honourable  William Pitt, “the Younger” 5. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 4. Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton 3. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 2. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1. Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

Dispute at your Leisure, and your Peril.

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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a British military officer and East India Company (EIC) official who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by seizing control of Bengal and eventually the whole of the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar. He is credited with seizing control of a large swathe of South Asia (now Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and parts of Southeast Asia and the wealth that followed, for the Company, in the process turning himself into a multi-millionaire. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures setting in motion what would later become British India. Blocking impending French mastery of India, and eventual British expulsion from the continent, Clive improvised a military expedition that ultimately enabled the EIC to adopt the French strategy of indirect rule via puppet government. Hired by the EIC to return a second time to India, Clive conspired to secure the Company's trade interests by overthrowing the Ruler of Bengal, the richest state in India. Back in England, he used his loot from India to secure an Irish barony from the then Whig PM, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and a seat for himself in Parliament, via Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, representing the Whigs in Shrewsbury, Shropshire (1761–1774), as he had previously in Mitchell, Cornwall (1754–1755).

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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The Most Noble Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968