walkins

Updated: May 12, 2025

As a dramatist S. shines in the construction of amusing situations, and in a sparkling flow of witty dialogue which never flags. His only other play was Pizarro , a patriotic melodrama. Lives by Walkins , T. Moore , and Mrs. Oliphant . Divine and controversialist, b. at Southwark, ed. at Eton and Camb., took orders, and became in 1684 Master of the Temple, and in 1691 Dean of St. Paul's.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature