Autograph letters signed (2) : to Sir James Boland Burges, 1801 June 3 and 1806 Mar. 1.
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Burges, James Boland, Sir,
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Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811
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Richard Cumberland was an author, best known as a dramatist and for his memoirs. Born at Trinity College, his father was a clergyman and his mother was the daughter of scholar Richard Bentley, then master of Trinity. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College at Oxford, and devoted himself to a life of literature. While serving a number of government posts, he continued his studies, and wrote and translated numerous works. He wrote prose and poetry, but was most successful as a pl...
