David William Paynter (1791–1823) was an English author.
The son of Richard Walter Paynter, an attorney, he was born in Manchester, and educated at Manchester Grammar School. Giving up on a medical career, he took up poetry and drama, and became closely associated with James Watson, a local writer, with whom he figured in magazines and newspapers as "Corporal Trim", while Watson called himself "Uncle Toby". [1] Watson was associated with the Manchester Magazine of 1815–6, and drowned in the River Mersey in 1820. [2]
In the introduction to his King Stephen, Paynter described his efforts to get it staged. After his pieces had been declined by several managers, he collected a company of his own, and produced King Stephen at the Minor Theatre, Manchester, on 5 December 1821. He died in Manchester on 14 March 1823, and was buried at Blackley. He had married in 1813, and left children. [1]
Paynter published: [1]
In 1820 Paynter edited Watson's literary remains, as The Spirit of the Doctor. He appended some of his own writings, including letters from Lancaster Castle, where he had been a prisoner for debt. [1]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "
Paynter, David William".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
David William Paynter (1791–1823) was an English author.
The son of Richard Walter Paynter, an attorney, he was born in Manchester, and educated at Manchester Grammar School. Giving up on a medical career, he took up poetry and drama, and became closely associated with James Watson, a local writer, with whom he figured in magazines and newspapers as "Corporal Trim", while Watson called himself "Uncle Toby". [1] Watson was associated with the Manchester Magazine of 1815–6, and drowned in the River Mersey in 1820. [2]
In the introduction to his King Stephen, Paynter described his efforts to get it staged. After his pieces had been declined by several managers, he collected a company of his own, and produced King Stephen at the Minor Theatre, Manchester, on 5 December 1821. He died in Manchester on 14 March 1823, and was buried at Blackley. He had married in 1813, and left children. [1]
Paynter published: [1]
In 1820 Paynter edited Watson's literary remains, as The Spirit of the Doctor. He appended some of his own writings, including letters from Lancaster Castle, where he had been a prisoner for debt. [1]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "
Paynter, David William".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.