Last Homes of Departed Genius With Biographical Sketches of Poets Painters An
Last Homes of Departed Genius With Biographical Sketches of Poets Painters An
T P Grinsted
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He was a great punster, and won from Sheridan the remark, " I hate a pun, but Colman MRS. SIDDONS. 145 almost reconciles me sometimes to the infliction. " At the table of George IV. , when Prince Regent, the royal host once said, "Why, Colman, you are older than I am. " "0 no, sir, " replied our wit: " I could not take the liberty of coming into the world before your royal highness. " In Kensington churchyard is a monument to Mrs. Inchbald, ** a beauty, a virtue, a player, and authoress of ' A ...Simple Story. ' " She commenced her career as an actress in 1777, in Tate Wilkinson's York circuit, but quitted the stage in 1789, continuing, however, to enter- tain the public in the character of a dramatist. Mrs. Inchbald died on the 1st of March, 1821. ST. MARY'S, PADDINCTON. This church, the third erected for the district, was built upon the Green in 1788-91, "finely embosomed in venerable elms. " In the churchyard lie many noteworthy persons, but none more celebrated than MRS. SIDDONS. This incomparable actress was born in July, 1755, at Brecon, in South Wales.
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