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    Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator. He was sympathetic to the early ideas...
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  • Thomas Holcroft was an English dramatist. Thomas Holcroft may also refer to: Thomas Holcroft (died 1591), Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst Thomas...
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  • Holcroft (1942-2000), South African botanical illustrator Sam Holcroft, British playwright Thomas Holcroft (disambiguation), several people Holcroft Blood...
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  • Edward Patrick Holcroft is an English film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in the Kingsman film franchise and in the television...
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    advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on...
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    The Inquisitor by Thomas Holcroft (1798) Modish in The East Indian by Matthew Lewis (1799) Lapont in The Castle of Montval by Thomas Sedgwick Whalley (1799)...
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  • Sir Thomas Holcroft (1505 – 31 July 1558) was a sixteenth-century English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner. Holcroft's fortune was made from...
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    septicaemia on 10 September. Godwin was devastated: he wrote to his friend Thomas Holcroft, "I firmly believe there does not exist her equal in the world. I know...
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    Holcroft Hall is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Holcroft, Culcheth, Cheshire. The manor of Holcroft was the product of a division...
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  • Knave or Not? by Thomas Holcroft (1798) Squeez'em in The East Indian by Matthew Lewis (1799) Robert in Hear Both Sides by Thomas Holcroft (1803) Cox and...
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  • its estates were sold to a member of the local Cheshire gentry, Thomas Holcroft. Holcroft pulled much of it down (including the church), although he incorporated...
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    and Mary Talbot (1594–1676), who married firstly her step-brother Thomas Holcroft (1596 – c. 1626) of Vale Royale, and secondly (in 1628) Sir William...
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    Fanny Margaretta Holcroft (1780–1844), daughter of writer Thomas Holcroft, was a novelist, dramatist, and translator whose work aligned with the progressive...
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    Bridge in the Strand. On 6 June 1573 he married Isabel Holcroft, a daughter of Thomas Holcroft (1505-1558), a Member of Parliament and commissioner at...
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    called a melodrama or 'melodrame' was A Tale of Mystery (1802) by Thomas Holcroft. This was an example of the Gothic genre, a previous theatrical example...
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    through Sheridan that Godwin became acquainted with a life-long friend Thomas Holcroft, whose arguments convinced Godwin to finally reject Christianity and...
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  • action-adventure video game The Inquisitor (play), a 1797 play by Thomas Holcroft Inquisitor (game), a tabletop game set in the fictional Warhammer 40...
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    The Inquisitor is a 1798 play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft. It was inspired by the 1775 play Diego und Leonore by Johann August Unzer. It premiered...
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    received word of the rising that morning and had sent Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Holcroft into the walled city of Coventry. The Mayor and nine other citizens...
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    attended an early showing. The play was translated into English by Thomas Holcroft, and under the title of The Follies of a Day – Or The Marriage of Figaro...
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    a good education, and, on the death of his father, was adopted by Thomas Holcroft and William Godwin. His first appearance on the stage was with Stephen...
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    landed gentry family. Margaret had two brothers: Sir John Holcroft and Sir Thomas Holcroft. Both distinguished themselves in the Anglo-Scottish Wars,...
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    "Constructing Treason, Narrating Truth: The 1794 Treason Trial of Thomas Holcroft and the Fate of English Jacobinism". Romanticism on the Net (45). doi:10...
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  • administration in Ireland. Holcroft was the son of Thomas Holcroft of Battersea, Surrey, and Joan Roydon, and grandson of Geoffrey Holcroft of Hurst, Lancashire...
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    William Henry Ireland (1796) Dorington in The Man of Ten Thousand by Thomas Holcroft (1796) Henrique in Don Pedro by Richard Cumberland (1796) Publius in...
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    Attorney by Richard Cumberland (1787) Lady Morden in Seduction by Thomas Holcroft (1787) Eliza Moreton in The Sword of Peace by Mariana Starke (1788)...
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    With the fortification of Dunglass, English commanders including Thomas Holcroft began to write of the "King's Pale" in Scotland, anticipating that...
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    Hear Both Sides (category Plays by Thomas Holcroft)
    Hear Both Sides is an 1803 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft. The original Drury Lane cast included William Dowton as Fairfax, John Bannister...
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    resurfaced in harlequinades, pantomimes and melodramas in the 19th century. Thomas Holcroft introduced a dumb character in his play A Tale of Mystery (1802), and...
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    "Introduction". St Clair, 183–84. William Godwin, in a letter to Thomas Holcroft, after his wife's death, as quoted in William Godwin : His Friends...
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