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Name Life Dates Gender Class
Kenrick, William 1729/30-1779 male unknown
Place of Birth Occupation Occupation Description
London, Middlesex, England Miscellaneous, Writing playwright, poet, author, critic, translator

Biography

"By William Kenrick, LL.D." (title-page)
 
"Writer and translator, was the son of Robert Kenerick, staymaker, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Mary (1708/9–1789). A member of a Baptist family, Kenrick attended probably either Philip James's Baptist school or Thomas Squire's Quaker school. Apprenticed in 1745 to Thomas Bennett, a mathematical instrument maker in London, Kenrick abandoned his apprenticeship after three years, in favour of a career in literature."
 
Career as writer, reviewer and translator.  Writer of satires and periodicals.  
 
(Source: ODNB)

Author Works

Title Year Published Edition  
A new dictionary of the English language: containing, not only the explanation of words, with their Orthography, Etymology, and Idiomatical Use in Writing; but likewise, their orthoepia or pronunciation in Speech, according to the present Practice of polished Speakers in the Metropolis; which is rendered obvious at Sight, in a Manner perfectly simple, and principally new. To which is prefixed, a rhetorical grammar; In which The Elements of Speech in general, and those of the English Tongue in particular are analyzed; and the Rudiments of Articulation, Pronunciation and Prosody intelligibly displayed. By William Kenrick, LL.D. London: printed for John and Francis Rivington, William Johnston, Thomas Longman, and Thomas Cadell, MDCCLXXIII.
 1773 1 Kenrick, William (1773)
Citation
Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP), 2015. Compiled by Joan C. Beal, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Ranjan Sen, and Christine Wallis. The University of Sheffield and Universidade de Vigo. Published by: The Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.dhi.ac.uk/ecep>.
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