Thomas Whincop (2 June 1697 – 1730) was an English compiler of theatrical history.
Life
He is identified as the son of Thomas Whincop, D.D., rector of
St Mary Abchurch.
On that basis he was educated at
Merchant Taylor's School and
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He lost considerable sums in the
South Sea bubble during 1721, and died at
Totteridge
Totteridge is a residential area and former village in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a mixture of suburban development and open land (including some farmland) situated 8 miles (13 km) north north-west of Charing Cross. It ...
, where he was buried on 1 September 1730.
Works
Posthumous was "Scanderbeg; or Love and Liberty: a Tragedy. To which is added a List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some Account of their Lives; and of all the Dramatic Pieces published in the English language to the year 1747" (London, 1747). The work was edited by Martha Whincop, the widow, who dedicated the volume to the Earl of Middlesex. The hand of compiler
John Mottley
John Mottley (1692–1750) was an English writer, known as a dramatist, biographer, and compiler of jokes.
Life
He was the son of Colonel Thomas Mottley, a Jacobite adherent of James II in his exile, who entered the service of Louis XIV, and was ...
was likely involved in compilation and revision. The dramatic authors are divided into two alphabetical categories, those who flourished before and those who flourished after 1660, and there are small medallion portraits engraved by N. Parr. At the end is an index of the titles of plays. The book was based for the most part on the ‘English Dramatic Poets’ (1691) of
Gerard Langbaine the younger. Whincop's works were later merged in those of
Benjamin Victor,
David Erskine Baker, and
Isaac Reed.
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1730 deaths
Historians of theatre
1697 births