Lording Barry

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Lording Barry

pirate
.

Career

Barry was the son of Nicholas Barry, a

pardon around 1615[2]). Later in life, he was part-owner of a ship called the Edward of London (her principal owner was Edward Bennett), which was granted a letter of marque in 1627. Several of Barry's relations helped settle Virginia, most notably his great-nephew Col. Edmund Scarborough II (1617–71), who followed in the footsteps of his father Edmund Scarborough I (1584 - 1635) and mother Hannah (née Smith), Barry's niece (a daughter of Barry's sister Alice). Barry left a bequest in his will to another great-nephew, Charles Scarborough. Charles Scarborough was a brother of Col. Edmund Scarborough and became a doctor at the English court in 1660; he was knighted by Charles II[3]
in 1669.

Works

Barry is known to be the author of one

Children of the King's Revels
before 1611.

The only performance of which any record exists took place at Drury Lane between 1719 and 1723, probably near the latter date. A manuscript cast, which came into the possession of John Genest assigns the principal characters to Robert Wilks, Theophilus Cibber, William Pinkethman, Mills, Mrs. Booth, and Mrs. Seal.

Gerard Langbaine conjectured that an incident in the play that was subsequently used in Thomas Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding was borrowed from the same author from whom Francis Kirkman took the story; which is to be found in Richard Head's The English Rogue, part iv. chap. 19.

There is also evidence that Barry authored or co-authored a second city comedy, The Family of Love (1608), which was once attributed to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker.[4][5][6] The two plays share a similar bawdy tone and both end in a mock trial in which the romantic male lead masquerades as a judge to punish the wrongdoers for their sins.

References

  1. ^ Also Lodowick Barry or Barrey, and miscalled Lord Barry.
  2. ISBN 0 7153 7264 5
    .
  3. ^ (Will of Lording Barry)
  4. ^ Lake, pp. 91–108 (name of book not supplied).
  5. ^ Taylor, et al., pp. 213–41(name of book not supplied).
  6. ^ Taylor, G., & Lavagnino, J., p. 19(name of book not supplied).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barry, Lodowick". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

  • Ewen, Cecil l'Estrange. "Lording Barry, Poet and Pirate" (1938)
  • Kathman, David (September 2004). 'Barry, Lording (1580-1629)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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