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Richard Cumberland was born at Cambridge, United Kingdome on February 19, 1732, the great-grandson of the philosopher Richard Cumberland and grandson of the scholar Richard Bentley.
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Richard Cumberland was born at Cambridge, United Kingdome on February 19, 1732, the great-grandson of the philosopher Richard Cumberland and grandson of the scholar Richard Bentley.
Cumberland was educated at the grammar school in Bury St Edmunds. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1751.
Cumberland was appointed crown agent for Nova Scotia in 1759 and secretary for Ulster in 1761 and served as secretary of the Board of Trade from 1775 to 1782. In 1780 he was sent to Spain to negotiate a separate peace treaty, but the plan failed. Cumberland wrote about 54 plays. His first success was The Brothers (1769), a comedy on the theme of Fielding's Tom Jones. Probably his best works are his sentimental comedies, including The West Indian (1771) and The Fashionable Lover (1772). In Memoirs (1806 - 1807), he described the prominent figures of his time, and R. B. Sheridan caricatured him in The Critic as Sir Fretful Plagiary. Cumberland also wrote two novels, Arundel (1789) and Henry (1795); adapted Shakespeare's Timon of Athens; translated Aristophanes' Clouds; and edited The London Review (1809). He died in Tunbridge Wells on May 7, 1811.
Cumberland wrote much but has been remembered most for his plays and memoirs. His plays are often remembered for their sympathetic depiction of colonial characters and others generally considered to be margins of society. During the American War of Independence he acted as a secret negotiator with Spain in an effort to secure a peace agreement between the two nations. He also edited a short-lived critical journal called The London Review (1809).
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Richard was married to his cousin Elizabeth Ridge in 1759.
