biography
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Cumberland, Richard
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| male
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| lived:
| (1732–1811)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a fellow at 20. Becoming private secretary to Lord Halifax in 1761, he became secretary to the Board of Trade (1776–82). Thereafter he retired to Tunbridge Wells, where he wrote farces, tragedies, comedies, pamphlets, essays and two novels, Arundel (1789) and Henry (1795). His plays include The Brothers (1769), The Jew (1794), and The Wheel of Fortune (1795). He was caricatured by Sheridan in The Critic as Sir Fretful Plagiary. |
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