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In the 19th century, the actor Joseph Jefferson portrayed Peter Pangloss in the comedy "The Heir at Law" with a coiffure that suggested a horizontal volcanic eruption.

Compton's last role was in 1877 in Liverpool as Pangloss in The Heir at Law. After he became ill, his friends organised two star-studded benefit performances for him in March 1877.

His will was proved 17 October 1550 by one of his executors, Sir William Paget. None of Sir Anthony Lee's four legitimate sons left legitimate issue, and the heir at law of his eldest son, Sir Henry Lee, was thus Henry Lee (d. 9 October 1657) of Kildare, son of Sir Henry's Lee's half-cousin, Captain Thomas Lee, 'the traitor', executed at Tyburn on 17 February 1601 after the Earl of Essex's rebellion.Chambers recounts an anecdote in which Sir Henry Lee's heir at law, Henry Lee, is familiarly termed Whip-and-away; .

At Ralph's death and inquisition post mortem, his heir-at-law was however found to be his uncle William Haines, by then an octogenarian.The National Archives (UK), Inquisition post mortem: Hopton, Ralph, knight: Somerset, ref. C 142/162/140 (Discovery Catalogue).

Liston as Pompey in Measure for Measure, by Samuel De Wilde. John Liston (c. 1776 - 22 March 1846), English comedian, was born in London. He made his public debut on the stage at Weymouth as Lord Duberley in The Heir at Law.

The day before the applicable sixty year limitation period for a claim of this nature expired on 6 December 1832, a Mr Davies claimed the estate on the basis that he was the heir at law of the late Mr Selby. The grand assize found for Selby Lowndes.

Selby died in 1772. Many people claimed to be the heir-at-law but eventually the claims were all dismissed. By 1783 Lowndes, the father of the subject of this article, had changed his name and inherited the estate. Selby Lowndes father had settled the estate upon him, on his marriage.

Here, however, Adam's will designates Fran as his heir at law. Instead of a life estate in Edward, followed by a vested remainder in Dinah, the doctrine of worthier title operates to disinherit Dinah completely, treats the interest of the heirs as a mere reversion, and upon Edward's death gives the land, as well, to Fran.

Date accessed: 11 November 2010 Haddock was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester in 1754 and held the seat to 1761. Haddock died on 19 July 1781, aged 58. Haddock married Miss Medhurst of Wrotham, but had no children.The Home Counties Magazine Volume 7 - Notes on the Village of Wrotham Kent Wrotham Place passed to his brother and heir-at-law, Charles Haddock.

On 18 April 1825 she played Cowslip in The Agreeable Surprise. That same year, she also played Dollalolla in Tom Thumb, Maud in Peeping Tom, Jenny in The Provoked Husband, and Cicely in The Heir at Law. She moved to London and performed at the Haymarket Theatre and at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She became popular for her performance as maids.

These titles cannot be bought or sold either. The holder of a peerage, baronetcy or knighthood may not lawfully transfer those titles or any title associated with them to another individual. If a peerage is renounced, it devolves automatically upon the heir-at-law, usually based upon primogeniture: the incumbent has no right to designate a successor to the title.

319 argues no issue, and at p. 323 includes a lawsuit verdict from 1737 stating that this Giles' only heir was his son Giles, who died about age 30, intestate and without issue, but does not explain why 16-year-old William Brent was the only heir-at-law of the younger Giles. The last wills and testaments of Giles (d. 1671) and Margaret (d.

These parts were all played at Covent Garden. At the Haymarket, 15 July 1797, he was the first Zekiel Homespun in George Colman the younger's The Heir at Law. At Covent Garden he was, 12 January 1799, Oakworth in Joseph George Holman's Votary of Wealth; 8 February 1800 Sir Abel Handy in Morton's Speed the Plough, and 1 May 1800 Dominique in James Cobb's Paul and Virginia.

In 1807 Henry Siddons recommended Oxberry to the Kemble management at Covent Garden Theatre. He made his first appearance on 7 November 1807 as Robin Roughhead in Fortune's Frolic, but was not a critical success.On 14 Nov he played Lord Duberly, alias Daniel Dowlas, in The Heir at Law, a part he substituted for that of Zekiel Homespun. After this he disappears from the bills.

John Lee's mother was named Anne, and he had a brother, Francis Lee, as well as a sister married to a husband surnamed Tote. As Chambers notes, there was a family connection, as John Lee held the livings of Fleet Marston and Wootton, but he could not have been a legitimate son 'or Sir Henry Lee would not have been Cromwell's heir at law'.

He had several children by Anne Gaudry, including Rev. John Turner Colman Fawcett (1804-1867), and Robert Henry Harris Fawcett (1805-1859) of the 18th Regiment and the Bengal Civil Service. As his career progressed Fawcett became effective in playing a range of characters, being particularly remembered as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law (1797) and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman (1798). He also authored several pantomimes.

1639), created Viscount Chaworth of Armagh in 1628. With the death of Joan's brother Thomas in 1483, the male Chaworth line was thus all but extinguished, and Joan, as her brother's heir at law, inherited most of the extensive Chaworth estates. By her marriage to John Ormond (d.1503), Joan had three daughters, among whom any barony of Chaworth which had been created by a writ in 1299 to her ancestor, Thomas de Chaworth (d.

Thus began a policy that lasted throughout his lifetime and his heirs' so long as they owned the land, to rent rather than sell, a practice which led to stunted growth for two and a half centuries to come. After Philipse's death in 1750 (Smith, 1749), the Highland Patent was inherited by his nephew, Frederick Philipse II, his only heir-at-law, who became the second Lord of the Manor at Philipsborough in Westchester County.

1913, d. 10-17-2004 At some point after he became famous under this name, he secured the legal right to it. Florence's first success was in A Row at the Lyceum (1851); following this, he established his reputation as Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son, Bob Brierly in The Ticket-of-Leave Man, and Sir Lucius O’Trigger in The Rivals. His last appearance was as Zekiel Homespun in a production of Heir-at-Law.

After Beverley's death in 1756, his son Robert was his designated heir at law. His wife Elizabeth inherited his plantations in Essex County, including the Blandfield estate and his "slaves, cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep" on the plantations. Beverley divided a large part of his fortune among his children and their spouses, bequeathing £500 to his daughter Elizabeth and leaving her husband, James Mills, "Money & slaves" valued at £1,000. Ursula also received £500 and her husband, William Fitzhugh, £1,000.

Collins also owned a large tract of land spanning present-day Hampshire and Hardy counties. His son Thomas Collins is thought to have inherited his father's landholdings as an "heir at law", since there is no record of a will by John Collins dispensing of his properties. By 1772, Thomas Collins acquired Lot Number20, where he lived with his wife Elizabeth. In 1816, Collins was serving as a magistrate when the town of Romney held a Virginia state election for the Electoral College.

Among his favorite parts were Timothy Toodle in William E. Burton's The Toodles, which ran for 200 nights at the Strand Theatre, and two roles from plays by George Colman "the Younger": Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law, and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman. At the beginning of his career Clarke wished to play tragedy, but he later turned to comic roles. He managed several London theatres, including the Haymarket, where he preceded the Bancrofts. He retired in 1889.

Jefferson revealed a new spirit in comedy, at a time when actors were long used to a more artificial convention. He also portrayed pathos in the part. Other early parts included Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby, Caleb Plummer in Dot (an adaption of The Cricket on the Hearth), Dr. Pangloss in George Colman the Younger's The Heir at Law, Salem Scudder in The Octoroon, and Bob Acres in The Rivals. The actors created this part beyond what Sheridan appears to sketch.

Sol Smith Russell, one of many well-known actors who have played Dr. Pangloss The Heir at Law (1797) is a comedic play in five acts by George Colman the Younger that remained popular through the 19th century. It and John Bull (1803) were Colman's best known comedies.Dabundo, Laura (ed.) Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals): Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s, p. 117 (1992) The piece debuted at the Haymarket in London on 15 July 1797, with John Fawcett playing Dr. Pangloss, and ran for 27 performances.

At the Princess's in February 1868, he was Salem Scudder in a revival of The Octoroon, and later, at the Strand, was the first Young Gosling in Fox versus Goose. On July 26, 1869, he was the first Babington Jones in John Brougham's Among the Breakers. At the same house he also played Toodles, Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law, and other parts. His success was so great that he remained in England for the rest of his life, except for four visits to America.

In 1849 he appeared in his first professional engagement at Saint Helier in Jersey, as Claude Melnotte in Bulwer Lytton's The Lady of Lyons. In the early 1850s, he played in various English companies without particular success in Portsmouth, Wolverhampton and Birmingham. Sothern travelled to America in 1852, first playing Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law in Boston, Massachusetts, with John Lacy's company at the National Theatre. He then played at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston and at Barnum's American Museum in New York.

She was at the Court Theatre in 1875, and at the Lyceum Theatre in 1878. She took a company to Australia, on her return succeeded Mrs Stirling as Martha in Faust at the Lyceum, and accompanied Henry Irving to the United States. She died on 26 May 1888 at Peckham Road, Camberwell, and was buried in Finchley cemetery. Attractive and buxom, she won acceptance as Dowager Lady Duberly in George Colman's The Heir at Law, Mrs Candour in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, and Mrs.

In the English legal system, any owner of a genuine heirloom could dispose of it during his lifetime, but he could not bequeath it by will away from the estate. If the owner died intestate, it went to his heir-at-law, and if he devised the estate it went to the devisee. The word subsequently acquired a secondary meaning, applied to furniture, pictures, etc., vested in trustees to hold on trust for the person for the time being entitled to the possession of a settled house.

He was the son of William Sherwin (1607–1687?), the nonconformist minister, and was born at Wallington, Hertfordshire, where his father was rector around 1645. On his print of his father, dated 1672, he styles himself engraver to the king by patent. He married Elizabeth Pride, great-niece and ward of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, whose heir-at-law she eventually became, and there exists a pedigree of the Moncks of Potheridge engraved by Sherwin expressly to show his wife's claim to that position.

Living in Botetourt County during the late 1760s, he was a witness to the land deed of Andrew Miller, heir-at-law of John Miller, to Israel Christian for a tract of land (81 acres) in southern Catawba later donated to build the first county courthouse and other public buildings. During that same year, he acted as an appraiser for the estate of David Bryan.Kegley, F.B. Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740–1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. (pg.

He died in December 1601, while resident in the parish of St Cross Holywell, Oxford. His eldest brother, Sir Henry, was his heir at law, and in his own will dated 6 October 1609 directed that tombs be set up for his brother, Cromwell, and other family members. It seems, however, that this was never done. An epitaph, attributed to 'a humorous student' of Oxford, stated that at his death Cromwell Lee 'gave nothing to the poor/But half to his bastards and half to his whore'.

Batman's will, made in 1837, was out of date at his death as many of the assets bequeathed to his children had already been sold. Years of legal wrangling followed his death, led by Eliza Batman, who had remarried in 1841 to Batman's former clerk, William Willoughby, and had only been left £5 in the will by her embittered first husband. The case dragged on, even after Batman's heir-at-law, his son John, drowned in the Yarra River in 1845, and its costs absorbed what was left of Batman's estate.

John Jones purchased Haldon from Mrs Anne Basset. Little is recorded about him, except that "John Jones of Haldon House" was the heir-at- law of the Sheppard family, of Heightly in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon, and owners of a fishery and the Barton of Lewell, Chudleigh. On 6 September 1722 Sir James Sheppard (c.1681-1730), of Watton Court, Honiton, and Lawell, Chudleigh, Devon,History of Parliament biography Serjeant-at-Law, MP, purchased the "Teign Fishery" at Chudleigh, Devon, "with the Manor of Heightly and the Barton of Lewell" from Nicholas Cove, Esq.

Warren was at his best in such roles as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, Dr. Primrose and Touchstone in As You Like It. In December 1853, Warren was accused of shooting Singleton Mercer. He had been the defendant in a sensational attempted murder trial and was acquitted. The events were fictionalized in George Lippard's The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall.Daily Gazette, Utica, NY, 30 December 1853 Warren was never charged in the case, and Mercer ultimately recovered from his injury.

On the death of Edward Bruning, aged 98, in 1707 the manor changed hands several times until in 1761 the Rev. Richard Harris (great-grandson of Warden Harris), Vicar of Wymering and Rector of Wydley, bought a moiety of the manor from Sir Edward Worsley, and in 1768 the rest of the manor from William Smith. The Rev. Richard Harris died without issue and intestate in 1768, and the manor went to his nephew and heir at law, Lovelace Bigg, who in 1783 added to the property by purchase from Lord Dormer.

Lord Chief Justice Tindal and the other judges of the court presided at the trial at bar in Westminster Hall which started on 28 November 1838. Selby Lowndes was represented, as lead Counsel, by the Attorney-General Sir John Campbell. The case concerned an estate known as Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire worth between £4,000 and £5,000 a year. A Mr T. J. Selby had left the estate to his heir at law and if none could be found to a friend of his, who was then a Major of the Militia named William Lowndes, on condition he changed his surname to Selby Lowndes.

His will of 1 August 1, 1750, reads as follows: "Peter Van Dyck, being very sick, leave to my son, Richard £5, in lieu of all pretence as heir-at-law, grandchildren, Daniel and Richard Shotford, £40 each at interest till of age. Daughters, Hannah and Cornelia, each a silver mugg, to Lena, my silver teapot, Sarah, my smallest silver tankard, Mary, my largest silver tankard, each by weight, as part of share in Estate. All rest of Estate to children, Richard, Rudolphus, Hannah, Cornelia, Lena, Sarah and Mary." The will was proved on January 5, 1751.

However Sir Henry Lee contrived to leave his estates, not to his heir at law, but to a nephew described thus by George Blundell in a letter to Sir Ralph Winwood on 19 February 1611: > Sir Henry Lee is dead, and hath left Sir Robert Lee's son of the Forest, > with one eye, his heir, and all his lands and goods but £600 a year to Mrs > Banaster [sic for 'Vavasour'] during her life and no further, and she must > put in bands to leave the houses and goods she hath at her death as good as > now they are.

Brograve had canceled his will immediately on discovering his wife's infidelity, and like his father before him, died intestate, the last in the direct male line of this ancient family. His heir at law was a distant relative, Henry John Conyers of Copped Hall, Essex. Worstead House and most of the other estates were put up for sale shortly after Brograve's death in 1828, although Conyers appears to have kept Waxham Hall for a time. A younger brother, Roger Brograve, described as "of competent, if not splendid fortune" had inherited money and estates from their uncle Thomas Brograve, a lawyer of Springfield, Essex in 1811.

She was co-heiress under the will of her uncle, Major-general Bellew, heir-at-law of the O'Briens, earls of Thomond. Educated during his earlier years at Lancaster Grammar School, Higgin was entered in 1842 as a student at St Mary Hall, Oxford. On attaining his majority in the autumn of 1844 he assumed his mother's maiden name, and dropped his patronymic. He was induced to do this by the circumstance of his being descended maternally from the senior branch of the O'Briens, and thus a descendant from Teige the second brother of Donough, the fourth earl, brother of Daniel O'Brien, 1st Viscount Clare.

The title was created in 1812 for Edward Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy sugar plantation owner and former Member of Parliament for Northallerton. He had already been created Baron Harewood, of Harewood in the County of York, in 1796, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and was made Viscount Lascelles at the same time as he was given the earldom. The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. Lascelles was the second cousin and heir at law of Edwin Lascelles, who already in 1790 had been created Baron Harewood, of Harewood Castle in the County of York (in the Peerage of Great Britain).

His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 and the Succession to the Crown Act 2013). In property law, a conveyance by the owner O "To A and heirs of the body", without more, creates a fee tail for the grantee (A) with a reversion in the grantor (O) should the natural, lawful descendants of the grantee all die out. Each person who inherits according to this formula is considered an heir at law of the grantee. Since the inheritance may not pass to someone who is not a natural, lawful descendant of the grantee, the heir is necessarily also "of the body" of the grantee.

Adolphus Philipse (1665-1749), son of Frederick Philipse, first Lord of the Manor of Philipsborough Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and Gore) Adolphus Philipse (1665-1750) was a wealthy landowner of Dutch descent in the Province of New York. In 1697 he purchased a large tract of land along the east bank of the Hudson River stretching all the way to the east to the Connecticut border. Then known as the "Highland Patent" it became in time referred to as the Philipse Patent. After his death the Patent was inherited by his nephew, Frederick Philipse II, his only heir-at-law, who became the second Lord of the Manor of Philipsborough in Westchester County.

By his will of 24 August 1885, Hymers bequeathed all his property to the mayor and corporation of Kingston upon Hull as a foundation for a grammar school "to train intelligence in whatever rank it may be found amongst the population of the town and port". An infelicity in the wording of the will rendered the bequest invalid under the successor Acts to the mediaeval Statute of Mortmain, but his brother Robert, the heir-at-law, offered the corporation a sum of £40,000 (subsequently increased to £50,000) to fulfil his brother's purpose.F.W.Scott, A. Sutton & N.J.King (edd.) Hymers College: The First Hundred years (Beverley 1992): 11-16 Hymers College opened a few years later, in 1893.

Papillon married, in Canterbury Cathedral, on 30 October 1651, Jane, daughter of Thomas Broadnax of Godmersham, Kent; she died in 1698. Their children included Elizabeth, born on 27 July 1658, who married on 30 March 1676 Edward Ward; and Philip (1660–1736), his heir-at-law, born on 26 November 1660, M.P. for Dover in the reign of Queen Anne. Papillon's eldest brother, Philip Papillon (1620–1641), born on 1 January 1620, graduated B.A. from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1638, and proceeded M.A. in 1641, in which year he died. He published the tragedy of his friend and fellow collegian Samuel Hardinge, entitled Sicily and Naples, in 1640, against the author's wish.

In April 1640, Bernard was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in the Short Parliament. Samuel Pepys consulted him in 1661 about the bitter inheritance dispute over the nearby estate of Brampton, Cambridgeshire (Bernard as Lord of the Manor of Brampton was also Steward of the Manorial Court), which Samuel's uncle Robert had bequeathed to him, but which several other heirs also laid claim to. The following year he persuaded Samuel and his father to reach a compromise settlement with Samuel's uncle Thomas, who had claimed the Brampton property as his brother Robert's heir-at-law. Samuel liked both Bernard and his second wife Elizabeth Digby, and he later became friendly with Bernard's younger son William.

Retrieved 12 February 2019. Among other roles Compton played Malvolio in Twelfth Night (1881), Dr. Pangloss in The Heir At Law (1881), Mawworm in Isaac Bickerstaffe's The Hypocrite (1881), Jack Rover in Wild Oats (1882), Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer (1882), Charles Surface in The School For Scandal (1883), Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (1883) and Bob Acres in The Rivals (1883).Edward Compton and The Compton Comedy Company By 1891 the Compton Comedy Company had been touring the UK for ten years and had given thousands of performances of such plays as Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal, The Road to Ruin by Thomas Holcroft, David Garrick by T. W. Robertson and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.

' His chief service to the Haymarket was rendered in so-called classical comedy, in which he to some extent replaced Farren. His parts in this included, in addition to those named—Sir Francis Gripe in the 'Busybody,' Sullen in the 'Beaux' Stratagem,' Malvolio, Adam, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Hardcastle, Old Mirabel in the 'Inconstant,' Lord Duberly in The Heir at Law, Lord Priory in 'Wives as they were and Maids as they are,' Old Dornton in 'Road to Ruin,' and Sir Walter Fondlove in the 'Love Chase.' His original parts comprised also Ingot in 'David Garrick,' Dr. Vivian in 'A Lesson for Life,' and Gervais Dumont in 'A Hero of Romance.' As Polonius, he took a farewell benefit at the same house on 24 February 1879.

Tyrconnel became Lord Lieutenant during the reign of James II, overhauling the Royal Irish Army which then fought in the War of the Two Kings # Robert; # Peter; and # Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Sir William's eighth son Of Sir William's daughters, Margaret married the landowner Sir Henry Talbot; Frances married James Cusack, grandson of Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Eleanor married Sir Henry O'Neill, 1st Baronet, of Killelagh, and was the mother of Sir Neil O'Neill and of Rose O'Neill, foster daughter and heir-at-law of Rose MacDonnell, Marchioness of Antrim; Mary married Sir John Dongan, 2nd Baronet, and had at least ten children, including Sir Walter Dongan, 3rd Baronet, William Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick, and Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick.

Genest says he showed himself a good actor, but was no adequate substitute for Elliston. At Drury Lane Wrench remained until 1815. He added to his repertory Sir Harry Beagle in the Jealous Wife, Marquis in Midnight Hour, Duke in The Honey Moon, Beverley in All in the Wrong, Floriville in Dramatist, Duke's Servant in High Life Below Stairs, the Copper Captain, Dick in Heir-at-Law, Gratiano, Frank in School for Authors, Major Belford in Deuce is in him, Bob Handy in Speed the Plough, and Count Basset in The Provoked Husband. He played a few original characters in obscure plays of Masters, Millingen, Leigh, and other forgotten dramatists, among which may be named Gaspar in the Kiss, taken by Clarke from the Spanish Curate of Fletcher, 31 Oct.

Bernard claims to have been the means of bringing Emery on the stage, and tells an amusing story concerning the future comedian. After playing a short engagement in Yorkshire with Tate Wilkinson, who predicted his success, he was engaged to replace T. Knight at Covent Garden, where he was first seen, 21 September 1798, as Frank Oatland in Morton's A Cure for the Heart Ache. Lovegold in Miser and Oldcastle in the Intriguing Chambermaid (both by Fielding), Abel Drugger in the Tobacconist (an alteration by Francis Gentleman of Jonson's The Alchemist) and many other parts followed. On 13 June 1800 he appeared for the first time at the Haymarket as Zekiel Homespun in The Heir at Law by Colman, a character in the line he subsequently made his own.

Upon the death of the grantee, a designated inheritance such as a peerage, or a monarchy, passes automatically to that living, legitimate, non-adoptive relative of the grantee who is most senior in descent (i.e. highest in the line of succession, regardless of age); and thereafter continues to pass to subsequent successors of the grantee, according to the same rules, upon the death of each subsequent heir. Each person who inherits according to these rules is considered an heir at law of the grantee and the inheritance may not pass to someone who is not a natural, lawful descendant or relative of the grantee. Collateral relatives, who share some or all of the grantee's ancestry, but do not directly descend from the grantee, may inherit if there is no limitation to "heirs of the body".

In his will he left his second cousin Bowater Vernon as heir to his landed estates, but a dispute developed as his brother-in-law Roger Acherley felt that as his closest relative and heir at law he should have benefited. Acherley challenged Vernon's will on a number of counts, mainly on the basis of technical errors in the codicil which was drafted on Vernon's death bed. Although it is true that it was not well drafted (ironic in view of Vernon's career), the Court of Chancery dismissed the case on the grounds that the testator's wishes were clear even if there were some irregularities in the wording. But Acherley was reluctant to give up, and took the case to the House of Lords in 1726, but with a similar result, thus leaving Bowater Vernon free to enjoy his magnificent inheritance.

His first play, The Female Dramatist (1782), for which Smollett's Roderick Random supplied the materials, was unanimously condemned, but Two to One (1784) was entirely successful. It was followed by Turk and no Turk (1785), a musical comedy; Inkle and Yarico (1787), an opera; Ways and Means (1788); The Battle of Hexham (1793); The Iron Chest (1796), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams; The Heir at Law (1797), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, "Dr Pangloss" (borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide); The Poor Gentleman (1802); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside (1803),archive.org his most successful piece; and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French. Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great deal of so-called humorous poetry (mostly coarse, though much of it was popular) – My Night Gown and Slippers (1797), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802; and Poetical Vagaries (1812).

"Heir male" is a genealogical term which specifically means "senior male by masculine primogeniture in the legitimate descent of an individual" Certain types of property pass to a descendant or relative of the original holder, recipient or grantee according to a fixed order of kinship. Upon the death of the grantee, a designated inheritance such as a peerage, or a monarchy, passes automatically to that living, legitimate, non-adoptive relative of the grantee who is most senior in descent, regardless of the relative age; and thereafter continues to pass to subsequent successors of the grantee, according to the same formula, upon the death of each subsequent heir. Each person who inherits according to this formula is considered an heir at law of the grantee and the inheritance may not pass to someone who is not a natural, lawful descendant or relative of the grantee. Collateral kin, who share some or all of the grantee's ancestry, but do not directly descend from the grantee, may inherit if there is no limitation to heirs of the body.

A subsequent Inquisition in 1606 during the reign of James I found that: > Inquisition, taken at the Windmill, on the March 13, 1606, by Humphrey > Wynch, finds that Mahone, son of Loghlen MacInerney, died at Ballysallagh, > on the November 12, 1572, being then owner in fee of Ballysallagh, > Ballykilty with its water-mill, and of Carrigoran, and leaving his son > Loghlen his heir-at-law. This son died at Carrigoran on the November 14, > 1576, leaving his son Donogh, then aged six years, but now of full age, as > his heir; finds that Mahone, son of John MacInerney, disputes the right of > his cousin to the ownership of these lands, alleging that his father John, > who was the true owner, had died at Dromoland, on the November 5, in the 7th > year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, leaving him, the said Mahone, his son > and heir. A subsequent Inquisition, taken in 1632, finds that Mahone had > been in possession, and that he died about the year 1617, leaving a son John > to succeed him, a man then of full age.

Engaged by Richard Wroughton, on a report from John Bannister, for Drury Lane Theatre for three years, Knight arrived with wife and children in London, only to find the theatre burnt down. It was at the Lyceum, where the company moved, the Knight made his first appearance in London, 14 October 1809, as Timothy Quaint in the Soldier's Daughter (Andrew Cherry), and Robin Roughhead in Fortune's Frolic by John Till Allingham. He built on success with Label in The Prize (Prince Hoare), and his creation of Jerry Blossom in Isaac Pocock's Hit or Miss, 26 February 1810, in which he and Charles Mathews as Cypher saved the piece.Scrub in The Beaux' Stratagem, Varland in The West Indian (Richard Cumberland), Zekiel Homespun in The Heir at Law (George Colman the younger), Dominique in Deaf and Dumb (Thomas Holcroft), Sam in Raising the Wind (James Kenney), Gripe in The Confederacy (John Vanbrugh), and Risk in Love laughs at Locksmiths (Colman the younger), are among the parts he took at the Lyceum, where he was also the original Diego in The Kiss, an adaptation of The Spanish Curate.

The following abstract of the will dated 20 April 1791 of "Henry Gladwin, General, of Stubbing, Derbyshire" was made by Derbyshire Record Office:Barker family of Ashover: title deeds and family papers, Ref D1290/T/12 > Property at Boythorpe, par. Chesterfield to his wife Frances to dispose in > her will to their daughters Frances, Dorothy, Mary, Ann, Charlotte, Martha, > Harriet, Ellen and Susannah; property at S Kirby, Yorkshire to be sold, and > his wife to have the residue; wife to have life interest in properties at > Stubbing, Walton, Wingerworth, Ashover and mines and mineral interests in > Ashover and Stoney Middleton, and after his wife's death the lands in > Brocklehurst, Ashover, in the possession of William Else, to daughter > Harriet the rest to go to son Charles Gladwin and the heirs of his body with > a remainder to Frances and her heirs; wife to have moiety of manor of Ulsoby > Waterless in Ulsoby and of properties in the parishes or precincts of > Claxby, Hogsthorpe, Willoughby, Ulsoby, Forthington, Skedleby, Anderby, > Huttoft, Wych and Cumberworth, Lincolnshire to which she was entitled as > heir-at-law of her brother, the late John Beridge of Derby, Doctor of > Physic; wife Frances and Rev Basil Beridge, executors.

His parts were mainly confined to Shakespearean clowns and other characters principally belonging to low comedy. Some few might perhaps be put in another category. The Shakespearean parts assigned him included Clown in 'Measure for Measure,' Polonius, Peter in 'Romeo and Juliet,' Dogberry, Trinculo, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Shallow in the 'Merry Wives of Windsor.' Other roles of interest were Don Pedro in the 'Wonder,' Don Jerome in the 'Duenna,' Crabtree, Antonio in 'Follies of a Day,' Silky in the 'The Road to Ruin,' Don Manuel in She Would and She Would Not and Sir Robert Bramble in the 'Poor Gentleman.' Out of many original parts taken between 1794 and 1805 the following deserve record: Robin Gray in Arnold's ‘Auld Robin Gray,’ Haymarket, 29 July 1794; Weazel in Cumberland's ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ Drury Lane, 28 February 1795; Fustian in the younger Colman's ‘New Hay at the Old Market,’ Haymarket, 9 June 1795. In the famous production at Drury Lane of Colman's ‘Iron Chest,’ 12 March 1796, Suett was Samson. In the ‘Will’ by Reynolds, 19 April 1797, he was Realize. His great original part of Daniel Dowlas, alias Lord Duberly, in The Heir at Law, was played at the Haymarket on 15 July 1797.