Oldys contributed twenty-two articles to the Biographia Britannica. Oldys' father, Dr William Oldys (1636–1708), was the son of Rev. William Oldys (1591–1645)...
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on 23 April, Saint George's Day. This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare...
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adolescens; his death is not recorded, but according to William Oldys he survived to a patriarchal age." Oldys wrote in the mid-18th century, without certainty...
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have owned the main store of Raleigh memorabilia and was consulted by William Oldys in 1735 when he was writing his Life of Raleigh Anne Raleigh married...
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poetry anthologies to appear was The British Muse (1738), compiled by William Oldys. Thomas Percy's influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)...
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lives of notable British men and women". The first edition, edited by William Oldys (1696–1761) until his death, appeared in 6 volumes (the sixth in two...
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Oxford and Earl Mortimer collated and edited by Samuel Johnson and William Oldys between 1744 and 1753 on behalf of the publisher Thomas Osborne. Its...
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of the Red Herring Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine In: William Oldys and John Malham (Eds) The Harleian miscellany Archived 30 December 2017...
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the United Kingdom was Biographia Britannica (1747–1766) edited by William Oldys. The American biography followed the English model, incorporating Thomas...
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Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Yeowell, James; Oldys, William (1862). A Literary Antiquary. Memoir of William Oldys, Esq. pp. viii-ix....
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original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2008-05-16. Raleigh, Walter (1829). William Oldys (ed.). The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford University Press. pp...
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Globe Theatre (category William Shakespeare)
thought "suspicious", with Oldys perpetrating a "hoax on his credulous public". The Shakespearean editor Edmond Malone took Oldys's conjecture further, by...
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put his pen at Robert Walpole's disposal. He is said by the antiquary William Oldys to have written a number of satires upon Alexander Pope, and to have...
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Etherege. Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. pp. xi-lxxxiiii. William Oldys, Biographia Britannica. Vol. III, 1750. p. 1841. John Dennis, A Defence...
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Henley William Habington William Cory Sir William Jones William Langland William Lisle Bowles William Makepeace Thackeray William Morris William Oldys William...
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politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682) 1761 – William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696) 1764 – Peder Horrebow, Danish...
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William Law An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse An Appeal to all that Doubt, or Disbelieve the Truths of the Gospel William Oldys –...
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Swift; Isaac Watts; Ambrose Philips; William Hamilton; Allan Ramsay; Dodsley, Brown; Isaac Hawkins Browne; William Oldys; Robert Lloyd; Henry Carey; David...
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was knighted and made Chancellor of the Order of the Garter in 1596. William Oldys said of him that he "would not stoop to fawn," and some of his verses...
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John Toland – Christianity not Mysterious William Whiston – A New Theory of the Earth July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquary, bibliographer and poet...
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(1691) by Gerard Langbaine, into which Steevens had transcribed notes by William Oldys in addition to the notes he had added himself. When Malone returned...
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Cour de France William Law – The Case of Reason Pierre de Marivaux – La Vie de Marianne (The Life of Marianne), part one William Oldys – A Dissertation...
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Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) April 17 – Thomas Bayes...
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answer to Benjamin Hoadly from 1735) Marguerite de Lubert – Tecserion William Oldys – The British Librarian Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Devout Exercises of...
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degree until its anti-Puritan sentiments made it unwise to revive it. (William Oldys reports a traditional view that the inscription on Jonson's tomb ("O...
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1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (d. 1747) 1696 – William Oldys, English historian and author (d. 1761) 1721 – John Douglas, Scottish...
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Drayton's complete works was published under the editorial supervision of William Oldys, and again in 1753 there appeared an issue in four volumes quarto but...
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Every's crew sailors. Vaughan's counsel, William Oldys, was also present for the piracy trials of John Golden and William Kidd. Golden's trial was similar, and...
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launched by Eliza Haywood; The Harleian Miscellany by Samuel Johnson and William Oldys; A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery; Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song...
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King's Admiralty Advocate William Oldys agreed and refused to prosecute them for piracy. Other officials disagreed and removed Oldys, replacing him with Fisher...
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