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| - Richard Cumberland (February 19, 1732 — May 7, 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant.
He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, the great-grandson of the bishop of Peterborough; his father, Dr Denison Cumberland, became successively Bishop of Clonfert and Bishop of Kilmore. His mother was Joanna, youngest daughter of the great scholar Richard Bentley and the heroine of John Byrom's popular eclogue, Cohn and Phoebe. Bentley's grandson later collected all the pamphlets bearing on the Letters of Phalaris controversy, and defended the reputation of his ancestor in his Letter to Bishop Robert Lowth. His youngest sister was poet Mary Alcock. Cumberland was educated at the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds, and he relates how, when the head-master Arthur Kinsman told Bentley he would make his grandson as good a scholar as the grandfather himself, Bentley retorted: "Pshaw, Arthur, how can that be, when I have forgot more than thou ever knewest?" Bentley died during his grandson's schooldays; and in 1744 the boy was moved to Westminster School, then at the height of its reputation under Dr Nicholls. Among his schoolfellows were Warren Hastings, George Colman (the elder), Charles Churchill and William Cowper. At the age of fourteen, Cumberland went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1750 he took his degree as tenth wrangler. His account of his degree examination, as well as that for a fellowship at his college, part of which he underwent in the "judges' chamber," where he was born, is curious; he was by virtue of an alteration in the statutes elected to his fellowship in the second year of his degree.
Meanwhile his work as a classical scholar had been interspersed with attempts at imitating Edmund Spenser, and a dramatic effort modeled after William Mason's Elfrida, called Caractacus. He had just begun to read for his fellowship when the Earl of Halifax offered him the post of private secretary, first lord of trade and plantations in the Duke of Newcastle's ministry. His family persuaded him to accept, and he returned to the post after his election as fellow. It left him plenty of time for literary pursuits, which included a poem in blank verse about India. He resigned his fellowship when he married his cousin Elizabeth Ridge in 1759, to whom he had paid his addresses on receiving through Lord Halifax "a small establishment as crown-agent for Nova Scotia." In 1761 he accompanied his patron (who had been appointed lord-lieutenant) to Ireland as Ulster secretary; and in acknowledgment of his services was offered a baronetcy, which he declined. When in 1762 Halifax became secretary of state, Cumberland in vain applied for the post of under-secretary, but could only obtain the clerkship of reports at the Board of Trade under Lord Hillsborough. (en)
- Richard Cumberland (19 février 1732 — 7 mai 1811), arrière petit-fils de Richard Cumberland.
Il s'est fait connaître comme littérateur, et a donné plusieurs pièces de théâtre, entre autres, les Frères et l'Américain, qui eurent du succès. (fr)
- Nel 1780 gli fu dato l'incarico di svolgere alcune missioni politiche in Spagna e nel Portogallo, ma sprecò in un nonnulla le sue ricchezze e fu costretto a dedicarsi alle lettere per guadagnarsi da vivere.
Scrisse alcune opere teatrali, di genere sentimentale, tra le quali
*I fratelli (1769)
*L'indiano occidentale (1771)
*L'innamorato alla moda (1772)
Fu autore anche della sua autobiografia Memorie della mia vita (1807), considerata dai critici poco veritiera. (it)
- Ри́чард Ка́мберленд (Richard Cumberland; 1732 — 1811) — английский драматург и эссеист, внук философа Ричарда Камберленда.
В своих «Memoirs» Камберленд упоминает о множестве работ по истории литературы и по эстетике, но известен он, главным образом, многочисленными комедиями сентиментального жанра, господствовавшего до Гольдсмита и Шеридана и отличавшегося морализированием и риторичностью. Любимая тема его комедий — изображение угнетенной добродетели, вознаграждаемой в V-м акте за все свои бедствования. Лучшие из них: «The brothers», «The Westindian», «The wheel of fortune», «The Jew», «The fashionable lover».
Категория:Драматурги Великобритании
Категория:Персоналии по алфавиту
Категория:Родившиеся в 1732 году
Категория:Умершие в 1811 году (ru)
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