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Old and New London
… thereNed Ward's AccountThe Beggars' Opera"John Audley" Garrick meets a brother ActorA Dangerous NeighbourhoodOld … noticing a joke, during the other 362 days of the year." "Garrick's name," says the same writer, "is connected with the … you. There's very few people in Smithfield as knows Mr. Garrick off the stage.'" In "Oliver Twist" Dickens sketches …
A History of the County of Essex
… in October 1764; the plays of Goldsmith and Sheridan and Garrick's versions of Shakespeare were among the productions …
Old and New London
… was Dr. Burney. It was at first called "The Club," but at Garrick's death it was styled the "Literary Club." In 1780 … an "alehouse," Mr. Timbs says that "from the time of Garrick's death the club was known as the 'Literary Club,' …
Survey of London
… Douglas, 173945; Dr. Robert James, 1745, physician; David Garrick, 174972, actor; Anthony Relhan, 175867, physician; … which is well known through its associations with David Garrick, was erected in c. 17068 under a sixty-one-year … 1736; John Boulthy, 17379; and William Farr, 17418. 16 Garrick bought the lease in July 1749, two years after he had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… will, 1807, trust fund, £630 consols; 2 8. Mrs. Eva Maria Garrick, codicil to will, 1821, trust fund, £358 14 s. 11 d.; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… house called the Cedars, which it appears that David Garrick, the actor, bought and bequeathed to his nephew. 20 … this house, but on the opposite side of the road, is 'Garrick's Villa,' formerly called 'Hampton House,' which David Garrick bought in 1754 26 from Mr. Lacy Primatt. The portico …
Old and New London
… here was Thomas Betterton, "the rival of Burbage and Garrick, and the last survivor of the old school of English … the bench of justices that he had last year written to Mr. Garrick concerning the impropriety of performing the Beggars' … gentlemen present would join with him in requesting Mr. Garrick to desist from performing that opera on Saturday …
The Environs of London
… acted only three nights, in consequence of a quarrel with Garrick, who had at first refused it, and was with difficulty …
Old and New London
… crimes, it was suppressed by the order of the magistrates. Garrick thus alludes to the tavern and its tea-gardens in his …
Old and New London
… at his house in Great Queen Street on the occasion of Garrick's funeral, in 1779. The "beautiful Perdita," Mrs. … on or near this spot on the 22nd of June, 1748, one "David Garrick, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden," was married by his … J. T. Smith, when within a few months of her death, Mrs. Garrick was married at the parish church of St. Giles's, and …