DANIEL

George . b. City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Token house yard; contributed many poems to Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine 1808–11; author of The Times, a prophecy 1811 anon.; Miscellaneous poems 1812; Dick Distich 3 vols. 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical 1814, 2 ed. 1816; edited Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols. 1821; his interlude Doctor Bolus was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce The disagreeable surprise at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited Cumber land’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols. 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D—— G——; edited Cumber land’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32; author of Remarks on Mi Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi 1828; Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; Garrick in the green room 1829; Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols. 1842, reprinted 1874; The Mi ionary 1847 a religious poem; Demo crit us in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest 1852; Love’s last labour not lost 1863. d. at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newing ton, London 30 March 1864. Memoir of D—— G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumber land’s British theatre vol. xxxix (1838), pp. 3–8, portrait ; G.M. 1864 pt. 2 , pp. 450–5. DANIEL, William Shand . Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin. 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumb art on 1844 to death; edited History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson 1852. d. 2 Dec. 1858. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p. 130.