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Survey of London
… close friendship with Sheridan, who had purchased part of Garrick's moiety of Drury Lane in 1776. Together they planned …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… I was carving for the Corporation to be presented to Mr. Garrick , the celebrated Shakespearean actor, by the … with four emblematic and theatrical scenes, one showing Garrick as King Lear during the storm, framed by Rococo …
Survey of London
… by a wide circle of distinguished friends, including David Garrick, Samuel Foote, Thomas Sheridan, Home Tooke, Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Shakspeare, resided here, and was here visited by Garrick, Johnson, Beattie, and other eminently gifted men. …
Old and New London
… a perfect constellation of talent. Quin, Macklin, Garrick, Mrs. Clive, and Mrs. Pritchard, with others of … himself rivalled by Macklin, and subsequently surpassed by Garrick. In spite of the contempt with which he affected to … From 1747 to 1776 Drury Lane owned the sway of David Garrick, the English Roscius, of whom Horace Walpole says: …
Survey of London
… was let to Thomas Becket, the bookseller and friend of Garrick. This house, which was then in the occupation of Mr. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… saw Henderson in six different characters. 69 In the 1740s Garrick had played Macbeth at the New Theatre attired in a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for coal mines in Oxfordshire', and his colleague David Garrick remarked that 'the pit of Drury Lane is more …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1763 to James Lacy. 89 Lacy, a co-patentee with David Garrick of the Drury Lane theatre, died in 1774. 90 His son … Drury Lane theatre for James Lacy and also working for Garrick. 18 Thomas Parker lived at Eynsham Hall in the early … xlix. 171-;2; European Mag. Iv. 273-;8; Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G.M. Kahrl, i, p. 47; P.R.O., …
Survey of London
… Gaspare Gambogi, surgeon, (18751888) James Gow and Andrew Garrick Gow, artists. No. 36. (17971808) Patrick Crauford …