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William Oldys
Portrait of Oldys, published 1795, by John Sewell. Engraved after an unknown original.[1]
Born
14 July 1696
London
Died
15 April 1761
College of Arms, London
William Oldys (14 July 1696[2] – 15 April 1761) was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.
^Baines, Paul (3 January 2008). "Oldys, William (1696–1761), herald and antiquary". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20699. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Oldys contributed twenty-two articles to the Biographia Britannica. Oldys' father, Dr WilliamOldys (1636–1708), was the son of Rev. WilliamOldys (1591–1645)...
on 23 April, Saint George's Day. This date, which can be traced to WilliamOldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare...
adolescens; his death is not recorded, but according to WilliamOldys he survived to a patriarchal age." Oldys wrote in the mid-18th century, without certainty...
Oxford and Earl Mortimer collated and edited by Samuel Johnson and WilliamOldys between 1744 and 1753 on behalf of the publisher Thomas Osborne. Its...
lives of notable British men and women". The first edition, edited by WilliamOldys (1696–1761) until his death, appeared in 6 volumes (the sixth in two...
poetry anthologies to appear was The British Muse (1738), compiled by WilliamOldys. Thomas Percy's influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)...
have owned the main store of Raleigh memorabilia and was consulted by WilliamOldys in 1735 when he was writing his Life of Raleigh Anne Raleigh married...
the United Kingdom was Biographia Britannica (1747–1766) edited by WilliamOldys. The American biography followed the English model, incorporating Thomas...
of the Red Herring Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine In: WilliamOldys and John Malham (Eds) The Harleian miscellany Archived 30 December 2017...
thought "suspicious", with Oldys perpetrating a "hoax on his credulous public". The Shakespearean editor Edmond Malone took Oldys's conjecture further, by...
Henley William Habington William Cory Sir William Jones William Langland William Lisle Bowles William Makepeace Thackeray William Morris WilliamOldys William...
Etherege. Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. pp. xi-lxxxiiii. WilliamOldys, Biographia Britannica. Vol. III, 1750. p. 1841. John Dennis, A Defence...
original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2008-05-16. Raleigh, Walter (1829). WilliamOldys (ed.). The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford University Press. pp...
William Law An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse An Appeal to all that Doubt, or Disbelieve the Truths of the Gospel WilliamOldys –...
– The Fortunate Foundlings Edward Moore – Fables for the Female Sex WilliamOldys – The Harleian Miscellany (introduction by Samuel Johnson) Joseph Warton...
was knighted and made Chancellor of the Order of the Garter in 1596. WilliamOldys said of him that he "would not stoop to fawn," and some of his verses...
politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682) 1761 – WilliamOldys, English historian and author (b. 1696) 1764 – Peder Horrebow, Danish...
Cour de France William Law – The Case of Reason Pierre de Marivaux – La Vie de Marianne (The Life of Marianne), part one WilliamOldys – A Dissertation...
1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (d. 1747) 1696 – WilliamOldys, English historian and author (d. 1761) 1721 – John Douglas, Scottish...
bookseller and publisher (born 1689) April 9 – William Law, English theologian (born 1686) April 15 – WilliamOldys, English antiquary and bibliographer (born...
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) WilliamOldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) April 17 – Thomas Bayes...
John Toland – Christianity not Mysterious William Whiston – A New Theory of the Earth July 14 – WilliamOldys, English antiquary, bibliographer and poet...
answer to Benjamin Hoadly from 1735) Marguerite de Lubert – Tecserion WilliamOldys – The British Librarian Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Devout Exercises of...
Swift; Isaac Watts; Ambrose Philips; William Hamilton; Allan Ramsay; Dodsley, Brown; Isaac Hawkins Browne; WilliamOldys; Robert Lloyd; Henry Carey; David...
(1691) by Gerard Langbaine, into which Steevens had transcribed notes by WilliamOldys in addition to the notes he had added himself. When Malone returned...
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