Ebenezer Forrest ( fl. 1774), was an English attorney. Forrest resided at George Street, York Buildings, London, and was intimate with

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like s ...

and John Rich, proprietor of the Lincoln's Inn Theatre. He was the father of Theodosius Forrest.

Works

Forrest's opera ''Momus turn'd Fabulist, or Vulcan's Wedding'', was performed at the Lincoln's Inn Theatre on 3 December 1729 and some subsequent nights. He also wrote ''An Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days' peregrination of the five following persons, viz. Messrs. Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and F. Begun on Saturday, 27 May 1732, and finished on the 31st of the same month'', London, 1782 (illustrated with plates by Hogarth). It was reprinted with

William Gostling William Gostling (1696 – 1777) was an English clergyman and antiquary, known as a historian of Canterbury. Life The son of John Gostling by his wife Dorothy, he was born at Canterbury in January 1696, and baptised in the cathedral on 30 Janua ...

Hudibras ''Hudibras'' is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately ...

tic version, London, 1872.

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