Talk:Samuel Foote

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too much Macklin?[edit]

The career and skills of Macklin are somewhat tangential to those of Foote, aren't they? Do we really need a picture? --Hugh7 (talk) 08:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vanbrugh's theatre[edit]

The pic on this page was of the Queen's/King's Theatre - on the West of the Haymarket, on the site of the present Her Majesty's Theatre. Foote's theatre, the present Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal), is opposite, on the East side. Tim Riley 15:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Damn, now I must go find a pic of it...*sigh*. Thanks for the info! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 03:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Foote was born in 1721 by modern reckoning. The confusion arises because the start of the new year moved from 25 March to 1 January in, I think, the 1750s.

Foote’s Haymarket was not quite on the site of the present Haymarket but about a block away. The fact that it is called the Theatre Royal is, of course, entirely Foote’s achievement.

Foote conveyed the lease of his theatre to George Colman on 16 January 1777 (though they had come to an agreement the previous year) not “the following year”. You omit most of Foote’s later career. You might wish to consider including at least his downfall from 1775: the enmity of the bigamous Duchess of Kingston; malicious indictment for raping his footman; and emphatic acquittal. Most commentators thought the experience broke him and hastened his death. The best sources for this paragraph are the article on Foote in Highfill et al, Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses etc., (Univ Southern Illinois, 1978) and Trefman, Sam. Foote, Comedian (New York Univ, 1971)

(Apologies if I should edit this directly: haven’t got the hang of it yet) Njbromley 12:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great or Grand?[edit]

I have been bold regarding "Grand Panjandrum" versus "Great Panjandrum". The WWII device was most definitely a Great Panjandrum. However the earliest quoted version of Foote's nonsense is from the novel Harry and Lucy Concluded (vol. 2) (1820) by Maria Edgeworth where she gives "grand Panjandrum" (although she uses both phrases elsewhere in the novel). E. Cobham Brewer also uses both phrases in Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction & the Drama (1860) but in his direct quote he gives "grand Panjandrum" also. --Dominic Sayers (talk) 14:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comic vs. Comedic[edit]

Comedic is more precise than Comic, and hence is more accurate in the article. "Comedic" mostly refers to things involving "Comedy", whereas "Comic" has the all-purpose sense of funny attached to it. While I'm sure Foote was an all-round funny guy, and that this is well-documend, that's not what he's known for. It's his writing and acting concerning Comedies that has put him in the history books. The article's lede should reflect this. Choor monster (talk) 14:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, tragedic is now an entry on Wiktionary. Thanks for the tip! Choor monster (talk) 14:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Housekeeper?[edit]

Mrs Gardner was in Foote's Company of Comedians after she married - she then moved ion with Foote as a housekeeper.^[1] Victuallers (talk) 14:19, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kelly, Ian (2012). Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London. p. 257. ISBN 1447204395.

Foote family[edit]

Contrary to your article, Samuel Foot (1620-1691), MP for Tiverton, was not the father of Samuel Foot the Dramatist and was deceased almost 30 years before the Dramatist’s birth in 1720 [1]. Samuel the MP had one son William, who died childless in 1696, the Estate passing to the daughters of the MP. Samuel the Dramatist’s father was Samuel (1678-1754): a Magistrate, his seat being at Pencalenick, Truro [2]. Extract from the register of baptisms (1720) St. Mary’s, Truro: “Samuel, son of Samuel Foote Esq. and Eleanor his wife, baptised Jan 27th Joseph Jane, Rector.” Samuel Foot MP for Tiverton is likewise erroneously credited with being the father of John (1668) - ancestor to the Irish Branch of the Foot Family, who came to Ireland as a Lieutenant in William of Orange’s Army [3]. John’s father was Simon of Truro, Cornwall.

1. The History of Parliament (Members Biographies) British Political, Social and Local History BD Henning 1983.

2. An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol. 2 Part 1 by Charles Sandoe Gilbert.

3. Burke’s Landed Gentry 1904. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sheila Foot (talk • contribs) 18:19, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[other-1] Kelly, Ian (2012). Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London. p. 257. ISBN 1447204395.

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