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West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 about Richard Linecar
Richard Linecar
Birth: 1723
Age: 77yrs
Burial 19 Feb 1800
Parish: Wakefield, All Saints
Note... this date is before the date of his noted death below, but it is a transcription error as I have looked at the original entry.
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 about Richard Linnecar
Richard Linnecar
Birth: 1722
Place: Wakefield
Death: 14 Mar 1800
Place: Swillington
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Linnecar,_Richard_(DNB00)
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"""" LINNECAR, RICHARD (1722–1800), dramatist, born at Wakefield in 1722, was for some time postmaster there. In 1763 he was elected one of the coroners for the West Riding of Yorkshire. For many years he was a prominent freemason. He died while holding an inquest at Swillington on 14 March 1800, aged 78 (Gent. Mag. 1800, pt. i. p. 391).
Linnecar published by subscription in 1789 a volume of ‘Miscellaneous Works’ (8vo, Leeds), containing two comedies, ‘The Lucky Escape,’ described by Genest ‘as insipid to the last degree,’ and ‘The Plotting Wives,’ the latter of which was acted at York on 6 Feb. 1769; a tragedy, ‘The Generous Moor;’ some prose ‘Strictures on Freemasonry,’ and numerous songs and other trifles in verse.
His portrait was painted by Singleton and engraved by T. Barrow.
[Lupton's Wakefield's Worthies, pp. 254–5; Linnecar's Works; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. p. 1367; Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, i. 210.]
""""If you contact the seller he is willing to send some photographs of this book:
http://ukbookworld.com/book-for-sale/STERN/21516/linnecar-richard-provincial-printing-the-miscellaneous-works-richard-linnecar-wakefield Quote
"""" LINNECAR (Richard) [PROVINCIAL PRINTING]: The Miscellaneous Works of Richard Linnecar of Wakefield. ,
First Edition, [8], 300pp., large octavo, a very good entirely unsophisticated large copy in original boards uncut, backstrip largely wanting but cords firm, LEEDS: Printed by Thomas Wright, 1789. PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Contains the plays: The Lucky Escape, the Generous Moor, the Plotting Wives; with: Songs, p.216-244.; Strictures on Freemasonry, p.245-262 and Poems, p.263-267 with a long subscriber's list (mostly from Yorkshire and north country). "Linnecar was the author of the celebrated Masonic anthem (present in this volume) beginning "Let there be Light! Th’ Almighty spoke /Refulgent beams from chaos broke, / T’ illume the rising earth. / Well pleased the great Jehovah stood / The Power Supreme pronounced it good, / And gave the planets birth." Little is known of his personal history except that he was the Coroner of Wakefield, England, and for many years the Master of the Lodge of Unanimity, No. 238, in that town. He was a zealous and studious Freemason. In 1789 he published, at Leeds, a volume of plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings, among which was an essay entitled Strictures on Freemasonry, and the anthem already referred to. He appears to have been a man of respectable abilities..." - Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences by Albert G. Mackey M. D. (Book ref. 21516) £80.00
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