RICHARD CUMBERLAND
\ɹˈɪt͡ʃəd kˈʌmbələnd], \ɹˈɪtʃəd kˈʌmbələnd], \ɹ_ˈɪ_tʃ_ə_d k_ˈʌ_m_b_ə_l_ə_n_d]\
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An English dramatist, novelist, essayist, and poet, grandson of Richard Bentley; born at Cambridge, Feb. 19, 1732; died at Tunbridge Wells, May 7, 1811. Of good family and the highest prospects, he was discredited and impoverished in public service, and made literature a profession. His comedies, "The West Indian"; "The Wheel of Fortune"; "The Jew"; and "The Fashionable Lover", are an epitome of the culture of the time; as are his essays, collected under the title of "The Observer". He wrote novels, tracts, religious and didactic poems, not now important; "Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain"; "Memoirs" (1806).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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