Scholia to Volume 9—Subscription List

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Although in each instance identification remains uncertain, the additional information offered here (*) may eventually lead to a positive identification, or at least a likely one.*p. 293 AUCHMOUTY, MISS (1766)Unidentified. The surname, with multiple variations, has ancient connections with the historic Scottish county of Fife. One possibility would be the Miss Auchmuty whose death is recorded in the London Gazetteer of June 22, 1769): “Tuesday evening died at her house in Park-Place, St. James, Miss Auchmuty, a lady of considerable fortune.”*p. 346 CRAMMMOND, MISS (1769)[A typo in the Florida Sterne for CRAMMOND.] Unidentified. One possibility is a Miss Cramond who later married Hugh Inglis, a “Portugal Merchant of Mile-End” (August 18, 1776), described in the General Evening Post (August 20, 1776) as “a young lady of a large fortune and creole by birth.” Hugh Inglis and Mrs. Inglis subscribed to two sets of Samuel Green’s Sermons and to Helen Maria Williams’s Poems, both published in 1786. Alternatively, Elizabeth Cramond of Langley Lawn, Essex, daughter of Robert (d. 1762); “Miss Cramond” subscribed to Robert Bacon, Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose in 1790.*p. 485 PINE, ESQ. (1769)Unidentified. To the two suggestions offered, Robert Edge Pine, the painter, and John Pine, an attorney, we might add Simon Pine (d. 1772), brother of Robert Edge Pine and a miniaturist, also from Bath, although living in Dublin, 1762–1771. He exhibited in London in 1768–1771, so may well have been available for solicitation. He subscribed to Charles Bulkley, Oeconomy of the Gospel, (1764), and to James Foster, Discourses on all the principal branches of natural religion and social virtue 1749–1752). As “Sim. Pine, Esq.” he seems to have appeared in the amateur but extraordinarily well-known production of Othello in Drury Lane in 1751, directed by Charles Macklin, s.n., and staged as a showcase for his theatrical students, including Francis, Robert, and Edward Delaval, s.n. Samuel Foote, s.n., another student, was expected to appear but did not. See E. A. Parry, Charles Macklin (London, 1891), 88–89.The habit of passing Christian names through generations is exemplified by the Pine family, where John, Robert, Simon, and Thomas Jr. all subscribed to Joseph Morris, Sermons in 1743; John may well have been the father of the artists Robert Edge and Simon, but they would have been too young in 1743 to be subscribers themselves.*p. 518 MR. SMITH (1766, 1768), —— SMITH (1769)Unidentified. Given the fifteen theatrical personalities possibly subscribing to Sterne, including several attached to Covent Garden, we might suggest William Smith (c. 1730–1819), known as “Gentleman Smith” and associated with Covent Garden from 1753 until a clash with Charles Macklin, s.n., in 1773. John Beard, s.n., and George Colman, s.n., were both managers of Covent Garden during the period in which Smith was part of the company.