For other people named Thomas Holcroft, see Thomas Holcroft (disambiguation).
Thomas Holcroft
Portrait, oil on canvas, of Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) by John Opie (1761–1807)
Born
(1745-12-10)10 December 1745
Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London
Died
23 March 1809(1809-03-23) (aged 63)
Occupation
Dramatist
Years active
1778-1802
Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator. He was sympathetic to the early ideas of the French Revolution and helped Thomas Paine to publish the first part of The Rights of Man.
ThomasHolcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator. He was sympathetic to the early ideas...
advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and ThomasHolcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on...
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...
Holcroft (1942-2000), South African botanical illustrator Sam Holcroft, British playwright ThomasHolcroft (disambiguation), several people Holcroft Blood...
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...
Lancashire, England. At the age of 20, he married Maria Holcroft, the daughter of John Holcroft of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, Cheshire, and Golborne, Lancashire...
Knave or Not? by ThomasHolcroft (1798) Squeez'em in The East Indian by Matthew Lewis (1799) Robert in Hear Both Sides by ThomasHolcroft (1803) Cox and...
Fanny Margaretta Holcroft (1780–1844), daughter of writer ThomasHolcroft, was a novelist, dramatist, and translator whose work aligned with the progressive...
septicaemia on 10 September. Godwin was devastated: he wrote to his friend ThomasHolcroft, "I firmly believe there does not exist her equal in the world. I know...
called a melodrama or 'melodrame' was A Tale of Mystery (1802) by ThomasHolcroft. This was an example of the Gothic genre, a previous theatrical example...
its estates were sold to a member of the local Cheshire gentry, ThomasHolcroft. Holcroft pulled much of it down (including the church), although he incorporated...
received word of the rising that morning and had sent Elizabeth to Sir ThomasHolcroft into the walled city of Coventry. The Mayor and nine other citizens...
through Sheridan that Godwin became acquainted with a life-long friend ThomasHolcroft, whose arguments convinced Godwin to finally reject Christianity and...
other French play of the century. It is translated into English by ThomasHolcroft and, under the title The Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro...
Hear Both Sides is an 1803 comedy play by the British writer ThomasHolcroft. The original Drury Lane cast included William Dowton as Fairfax, John Bannister...
administration in Ireland. Holcroft was the son of ThomasHolcroft of Battersea, Surrey, and Joan Roydon, and grandson of Geoffrey Holcroft of Hurst, Lancashire...
William Henry Ireland (1796) Dorington in The Man of Ten Thousand by ThomasHolcroft (1796) Henrique in Don Pedro by Richard Cumberland (1796) Publius in...
"Constructing Treason, Narrating Truth: The 1794 Treason Trial of ThomasHolcroft and the Fate of English Jacobinism". Romanticism on the Net (45). doi:10...
Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea. February 18 – ThomasHolcroft produces the comedy The Road to Ruin in London. February 20 The Postal...
Wroughton Thomas Venables Thomas Leigh alias Doctor Edward Darrell (died 1549) John Luttrell George Bowes of Streatlam. Ralph Bulmer ThomasHolcroft, of Vale...
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