KIN returned to London, with his poverty, his idleness, and his wit; and published some essays called Useful Transactions. His Voyage to the Island of Cajamai is particularly commended. He then wrote The Art of Love, a poem remarkable, notwithstanding its title, for purity of sentiment; and in 1709 imitated Horace in an Art of Cookery, which he published, with some letters to Dr. Lister. In 1710 he appeared, as a lover of the church, on the side of Sacheverell; and was supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of The Examiner. In 1711, competence, if not plenty, was again put into his power. He was, without the trouble of attendance, or the mortification of a request, made gazetteer. Swift, Freind, Prior, and other men of the same party, brought him the key of the gazetteer's office. He was now again placed in a profitable employment, and again threw the benefit away. An act of insolvency made his business at that time particularly troublesome; and he would not wait till hurry should be at an end, but impatiently resigned it, and returned to his wonted indigence and amusements. In the autumn of 1712 his health declined; he grew weaker by degrees, and died on Christmas-day. Though his life had not been without irregularity, his principles were pure and orthodox, and his death was pious. His works were collected by Mr. Nichols, in three volumes 8vo. in 1776; among which is a whimsical piece, which entitles him to a place in this work, called The Tragi-Comedy of Joan of Hedington. KINWELLMARSHE, FRANCIS, was Κ Ν Ι assistant to George Gascoigne in translating Euripides's Jocasta. Tr. 4to. 1575. KIRKE, JOHN. Of this author we can trace nothing further than that all writers agree in placing him in the reign of King Charles I. and naming him as the author of one piece, entitled The Seven Champions of Christendome. Play. 4to. 1638. KIRKMAN, FRANCIS, See K.F. KNAPP, HENRY, is a clergyman brought up at Cambridge, and son of a person, also in orders, who keeps a school at Stamford. He has produced two dramatic pieces, viz. 1. The Exciseman. F.1780. N.P. 2. Hunt the Slipper. M.F. 1784. N. P. [Except in a piratical edition.] KNEVET, RALPH, was a Norfolk gentleman, and contemporary with Mr. Kirke above mentioned. He wrote one little piece, which was intended only for a private representation at the Florists' feast at Norwich, entitled Rhodon and Iris. Past. 4to.1631. KNIGHT, A principal low comedian, in the York and Hull company, wrote a piece in two acts, called The Sailor and Soldier; or, Fashionable Amusement. Mus. F. 1805. KNIGHT, THOMAS, a native of Dorsetshire, and the son of a respectable country gentleman in that county, who gave him a liberal education, was originally designed for the bar. Having been instructed in oratory by Mr. Macklin, however, he began to entertain a greater inclination for the drama than the law, and accordingly made his first theatrical attempt at York, where he performed five seasons with consider able applause. He then procured an engagement at Bath, and for eight seasons filled a respectable line of business there with so much reputation, that he received an invitation from the manager of Covent Garden, which he accepted, and made his first appearance in London Sept. 25, 1795, in the character of Jacob, in The Chapter of Accidents, and Skirmish, in The Deserter; and by his chaste representation of rustic characters, and flippant coxcombs, gradually became a great favourite with the public. When Mr. Knight was about to leave town, he waited on his venerable tutor, Mr. Macklin, and politely thanked him for the great benefit that he had received from his instructions: he lamented that it was not in his power to make a suitable return; and having only pecuniary gratification to bestow, begged his acceptance of a testimony of his gratitude. "If "I have served you (replied the "veteran), I am well satisfied." Mr. Knight, however, persisting in his benevolent intention, Macklin fairly pushed him out at the door. Mr. Knight was one of the eight performers who complained of the manager's new regulations. [See art. HOLMAN.] He resigned his situation at Covent Garden in 1803, and is now a proprietor of the Liverpool theatre. His wife is sister to the Countess of Derby, formerly Miss Farren. Mr.K.'s dramatic productions are as follow: 1. Thelyphthora. C.F.W.C.P. 1783. 2. Trudge and Wowski. Prel. 1790. KNIPE, CHARLES. Of this gentleman we know no more than that he was of Trinity College, Cambridge, an officer in the army, and author of one petite piece for the theatre, which met with some applause at its first appearance, entitled A City Ramble. acts. 12mo. 1715. Farce, of two KYD, THOMAS. This author produced one play, which was the constant object of ridicule among his contemporaries and immediate successors. The circumstances of his life, however, are unknown. He seems, like the generality of peets, to have been poor, and probably died about the year 1594 or 1595. He produced, 1. Cornelia. T. 4to. 1594. In Dodsley's Collection. (Afterwards called Pompey the Great his fair Cornelia's Tragedy. 4to. 1595.) 2. The Spanish Tragedy; or, Hieronimo is mad again. 4to. 1603. But acted, probably, before 1590. In Dodsley's Collect. Mr. Hawkins, with some probability, conjectures him to have been the author of Soliman and Perseda. T. 4to. 1599. KYFFIN, MAURICE. Of this gentleman we know nothing more than that he was one of the first translators into English of one of the comedies of Terence, viz. Andria. C. printed in the black letter. 4to. 1588. He wrote early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and seems, from circumstances relating to this play, to have been tutor to the children of the celebrated Lord Buckhurst; a particular which of itself is sufficient to give us a very favourable 4. Turnpike Gate. M. E. 8vo. idea of his literary abilities. 1799. 3. Honest Thieves. F. 12mo. 1797. LAC L. G. These initials are affixed to The Honest Criminal. Dr. Svo. 1778. LACKET, DR. See HACKET. LACY, JOHN, flourished in the reign of King Charles II. He was born near Doncaster, in Yorkshire, and was at first bred a dancingmaster; but afterwards went into the army, having a lieutenant's commission and warrant as quartermaster under Colonel Charles Gerrard. The charms of a military life, however, he quitted to go upon the stage; in which profession, from the advantages of a fine person, being well shaped, of a good stature, and well proportioned, added to a sound critical judgment, and a large share of comic humour, he arrived at so great a height of excellence, as to be universally admired; and in particular was so high in the esteem of King Charles II. that His Majesty had his picture painted in three several characters, viz. Teague in The Committee, Scruple in The Cheats, and Galliard in The Variety; which picture is still preserved at Windsor Castle. His cast of acting was chiefly in comedy; and his writings are all of that kind, he being the author of the four following plays: 1. Dumb Lady. C. 4to. 1672. 2. Old Troop. C. 4to. 1672. 3. Sir Hercules Buffoon. C. 4to. 1684. 4. Sawney the Scot. C. 4to.1698. The third of these was not brought on the stage till three years after the author's death, which happened on the 17th of September 1681. L. LAM Mr. Durfey, who wrote the pro logue to it, has, in the following lines, paid a very great, but, as it appears, a well-deserved compliment to Mr. Lacy's theatrical abilities, in reference to the advantages the piece might have received from the author's own performance in it, had he been living: "Know, that fam'd Lacy, ornament o' th' stage, "That standard of true comedy in our age, "Wrote this new play"And if it takes not, all that we can say on 't, "Is, we've his fiddle, not his hands to play on 't." LACY, HENRY, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was author of a Latin play, called Richardus Tertius. T. 1586. N.P. LAMB, CHARLES. Of this gentleman we only know that he is the author of, 1. John Woodvil. T. 8vo. 1802. 2. Mr. H. Farce, 1806. N. P. But we suppose that he is the same writer who, in 1808, gave to the public a very agreeable selection, entitled Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the Time of Shakspeare and had previously published Tales from Shakspeare, a work of very considerable merit. LAMBE, THE HON. GEORGE. This gentleman, whom we suppose to be one of the sons of Lord Viscount Melbourne, is author. of Whistle for It. Op. Piece. 8vo. 1807. LAMBERT, BARROWDALE, was a painter, and published, about 1747, one dramatic piece, entitled The Wreckers. LAN LANGFORD, ABRAHAM. This gentleman was, perhaps, better known in the polite than in the poetical world; standing once the foremost in renown among a set of orators, whose eloquence must be confessed of the most perfect and powerful kind, since it has that amazing prevalence of persuading mankind to part with even their money. In a word, to leave ambiguities, he was the most celebrated auctioneer of his age, and successor in that profession to the great Mr. Cock. His success, or perhaps his merit, was not so great in the exercise of his pen as in that of another more valuable weapon; for the only dramatic pieces which he attempted never met with much success. They are called, 1. The Judgment of Paris. Ent. Svo. 1730. 2. The Lover his own Rival. B.O. 8vo. 1736. Mr. Langford was buried in the churchyard of St. Pancras, where the following lines are inscribed on both sides of his tomb: "His spring of life was such as should have been, LANGHORNE, JOHN, D. D. was born at Kirby Stephen, in Westmorland. His father was the Rev. Joseph Langhorne, of Winston, who died when his son was young. Having entered into holy orders, Mr. Langhorne was appointed, Dec. 1765, preacher-assistant at Lincoln's Inn. He afterwards became tutor to the sons of Robert Cracroft, Esq. of Hackthorne, Lincolnshire, whose daughter he married Jan. 15, 1767. This lady in a short time died; and the loss of her was very pathetically lamented by her husband in a monody; and by another gentleman, Mr. Cartwright, in a poem, entitled Constantia. Dr. Langhorne held the living of Blagden, in Somersetshire, at the time of his death, which happened on the 1st of April 1779, and was imputed to his usual substitute for the Castalian fountain, rather too frequent draughts of Burton ale, at the Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane. He wrote many miscellaneous works, but only one drama, called The Fatal Prophecy. Dr. Poem. 12mo. 1766. LANSDOWNE. See GRANVILLE. LATEWARE, DR. RICHARD. In Daniel's apology for his play of Philotas, we find that this gentleman had written a drama on the same subject, which was acted worthily and with great applause," at St. John's College, in Oxford. As we know not the name of Dr. Lateware's piece, we cannot notice it in our list of plays. Dr. Lateware (Wood calls him Latewar) was born at London, in 1560, educated at Merchant Taylors' school, and entered of St. LAT John's College, Oxford, in 1580. In 1588 he took the degree of M. A. and was become a famous preacher, being rector of Hopton, in Suffolk. In 1593 he was elected one of the proctors of the university. He was afterwards made rector of Finchley, in Middlesex, D. D. and at length appointed chaplain to the heroic Lord Mountjoy, Viceroy of Ireland. Camden, in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth, tells us that Dr. Latewar was killed in the battle near Carlingford, in which Lord Mountjoy overthrew the rebels; but mis-states the year to have been 1600. Fines Morrison, who was on the spot when he received his death-wound, says (Rebellion of Hugh Earl of Tyrone, in Ireland, lib. 2. cap. 1.) that he was shot at Benburb, July 16, 1601, and died the following day. He was buried in the church of Armagh; and in the chapel of St. John's College was erected a monument to his memory, with a handsome inscription. Dr. Lateware was a very ingenious Latin epigrammatic poet, and composed Carmen ATOMore Coll. S. Jo. Bapt. which was afterwards restored and augmented by Richard Andrews, M. D. and Fellow of the said College. LATHOM, FRANCIS, a native of Norwich, is the author of several novels, and of the following dramatic productions: 1. All in a Bustle. C. 8vo. 1795. 2. The Dash of the Day. C. Svo. 1800. 3. Holiday Time. F. 8vo. 1800. 4. Orlando and Seraphina. H., D. 12mo. N. D.; 8vo. 1800. 5. Curiosity. C. 8vo. 1801. 6. The Wife of a Million. 12mo. N.D.; Svo. 1803. C. LA T To him also we find ascribed The Dash. M. F. 1804; but it seems merely an alteration of the third piece mentioned above. LATHY, THOMAS PIKE, is author of Reparation. D. 8vo. 1800. LATTER, MRS. MARY, was born at Henley upon Thames, in 1725; and after the death of her father, an attorney of that town, came to Reading, and settled there. She had an early inclination for poetry, but with a propensity to satire; which she discovered by writing some verses descriptive of the persons and characters of several ladies of Reading. This satire, as it was called, she thought proper to disown, by a ludicrous advertisement, in verse, inserted in The Reading Mercury, Nov. 17, 1740. In 1759 she published The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse, of Mrs. Mary Latter, of Reading, Berks." In this volume she describes herself as resident "not very far from the market-place, immersed in bu"siness and in debt: sometimes madly hoping to gain a compe"tency; sometimes justly fearing dungeons and distress." She wrote The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian. T. which Rich, the patentee of Covent Garden Theatre, having seen, he took her under his protection. About this time she published A Miscellaneous Poetical Essay; to which Rich procured her a hundred subscribers, and desired her to remain at his house, in order, as he kindly said, "that by fre"quenting the theatre, she might "improve in the knowledge of it." Rich died a few weeks afterward; which put an end to the hopes and expectations of Mrs. Latter, who |
