词条 | David William Paynter |
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David William Paynter (1791–1823) was an English author. LifeThe son of Richard Walter Paynter, an attorney, he was born in Manchester, and educated at Manchester grammar school. Giving up on a medical career, he took up poetry and drama, and became closely associated with James Watson, a local writer, with whom he figured in magazines and newspapers as "Corporal Trim", while Watson called himself "Uncle Toby".[1] Watson was associated with the Manchester Magazine of 1815–6, and drowned in the River Mersey in 1820.[2] In the introduction to his King Stephen, Paynter described his efforts to get it staged. After his pieces had been declined by several managers, he collected a company of his own, and produced King Stephen at the Minor Theatre, Manchester, on 5 December 1821. He died in Manchester on 14 March 1823, and was buried at Blackley. He had married in 1813, and left children.[1] WorksPaynter published:[1]
In 1820 Paynter edited Watson's literary remains, as The Spirit of the Doctor. He appended some of his own writings, including letters from Lancaster Castle, where he had been a prisoner for debt.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Paynter, David William|volume=44}} Attribution{{DNB|wstitle=Paynter, David William|volume=44}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Paynter, David William}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Richard Wright Procter|title=Literary Reminiscences and Gleanings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejY1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55|year=1860|publisher=T. Dinham|pages=55–6}} 9 : 1791 births|1823 deaths|English dramatists and playwrights|People from Manchester|English male dramatists and playwrights|English male poets|19th-century English poets|19th-century English dramatists and playwrights|19th-century British male writers |
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