Richard Cumberland
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- Born
- 1732. · Cambridge.
- Died
- 1811. · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- writer, playwright, novelist and essayist.
- Education
- Trinity College.
- Languages
- English.
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1732
Richard Cumberland born at Cambridge.
1806
Memoirs of Richard Cumberland (1806) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1811
Richard Cumberland died at London.
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- Cumberland, Richard (1732–1811), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018
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- 1.Cumberland, Richard.
- 2.Cumberland, Richard (1732â€"1811), playwright and novelist Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/6888.
- 3.'The Memoirs of Richard Cumberland', pub. Parry & McMillan, 1856. pps 318–319.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Critical Examination of Cumberland's works (1812) and a memoir of the author based on his autobiography, with some criticism, by William Mudford, appeared in 1812.
- George Paston's Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (1901) includes an account of Cumberland.
- Hermann Theodor Hettner assessed Cumberland's position in the history of the English drama in Litteraturgesch. d. 18. Jahrhunderts (2nd ed., 1865), i. 520.
- Ward, Adolphus William. Adolphus William Ward. Cumberland, Richard (dramatist). 622–623.
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His recorded language was English. He was the child of Denison Cumberland and Johanna Bentley. He married Elizabeth Ridge. 4 children are recorded: Elizabeth Cumberland, Charles Cumberland, William Cumberland and George Cumberland. Recorded as writer, playwright, novelist and essayist.
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