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)...

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...

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...

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...

poetry anthologies to appear was The British Muse (1738), compiled by William Oldys. Thomas Percy's influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)...

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...

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...

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...

the United Kingdom was Biographia Britannica (1747–1766) edited by William Oldys. The American biography followed the English model, incorporating Thomas...

Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Yeowell, James; Oldys, William (1862). A Literary Antiquary. Memoir of William Oldys, Esq. pp. viii-ix....

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...

thought "suspicious", with Oldys perpetrating a "hoax on his credulous public". The Shakespearean editor Edmond Malone took Oldys's conjecture further, by...

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...

Etherege. Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. pp. xi-lxxxiiii. William Oldys, Biographia Britannica. Vol. III, 1750. p. 1841. John Dennis, A Defence...

Henley William Habington William Cory Sir William Jones William Langland William Lisle Bowles William Makepeace Thackeray William Morris William Oldys William...

politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682) 1761 – William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696) 1764 – Peder Horrebow, Danish...

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 –...

Swift; Isaac Watts; Ambrose Philips; William Hamilton; Allan Ramsay; Dodsley, Brown; Isaac Hawkins Browne; William Oldys; Robert Lloyd; Henry Carey; David...

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...

John Toland – Christianity not Mysterious William Whiston – A New Theory of the Earth July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquary, bibliographer and poet...

(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...

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...

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) April 17 – Thomas Bayes...

answer to Benjamin Hoadly from 1735) Marguerite de Lubert – Tecserion William Oldys – The British Librarian Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Devout Exercises of...

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...

1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (d. 1747) 1696 – William Oldys, English historian and author (d. 1761) 1721 – John Douglas, Scottish...

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...

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...

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...

King's Admiralty Advocate William Oldys agreed and refused to prosecute them for piracy. Other officials disagreed and removed Oldys, replacing him with Fisher...