Ireland, W. H. 1777-1835

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Personality
| System number 987007272809405171

Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Ireland, W. H. 1777-1835
Other forms of name
nna Ireland, William Henry, 1777-1835
Ireland, Samuel William Henry, 1777-1835
Flagellum, 1777-1835
Sculptor, Satiricus, 1777-1835
H. C., 1777-1835
C., H., 1777-1835
HC, 1777-1835
Ireland, Mr. (William Henry), 1777-1835
Anser Pen-drag-on, 1777-1835
Pen-drag-on, Anser, 1777-1835
Irwin, William Henry, 1777-1835
Freeman, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835
Ireland, S. W. H. (Samuel William Henry), 1777-1835
Persius, Paul, 1777-1835
Date of birth
1777-08-02
Date of death
1835-04-17
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 97924045
Wikidata: Q4058973
Library of congress: n 50037662
OCoLC: oca00072901
Sources of Information
  • All the blocks, 1808:t.p. (Flagellum)
  • Chalcographimania, 1814:t.p. (Satiricus Sculptor)
  • ODNB 2 Sept. 2009(Ireland, William Henry (1775--1835), literary forger and writer, was born on 2 August 1775 in London, the only surviving son of Samuel Ireland (d. 1800), engraver and author, and Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger, otherwise Mrs Freeman (d. 1802), who passed as the father's housekeeper but was known to be his mistress and mother of his children, died at Sussex Place, St George's-in-the-Fields, London, on 17 April 1835)
  • Rizzio, 1849:t.p. (the late Mr. Ireland)
  • Scribbleomania, 1815:t.p. (Anser Pen-drag-on, esq.)
  • The abbess, 1834:t.p. (W.H. Ireland)
  • The fisher boy, 1809:t.p. (H.C., esq.)
  • Vortigern, 1832:t.p., p. xiii (W.H. Ireland)
  • His The abbess, 1834:t.p. (W.H. Ireland)
  • His All the blocks, 1808:t.p. (Flagellum)
  • His Chalcographimania, 1814:t.p. (Satiricus Sculptor)
  • His The fisher boy, 1809:t.p. (H.C., esq.)
  • His Rizzio, 1849:t.p. (the late Mr. Ireland)
  • His Scribbleomania, 1815:t.p. (Anser Pen-drag-on, esq.)
  • Brit. Mus. cat.(Ireland, Samuel William Henry)
  • His Vortigern, 1832:t.p., p. xiii (W.H. Ireland)
  • Dict. of natl. biogr.(under Ireland, Samuel; forger who attributed several of his own writings to Shakespeare including his blank-verse play "Vortigern and Rowena"; supported by deceived father nearly up to the latter's death; exposed as a fraud in May 1796; son of Samuel Ireland, probably illegitimate; mother may have been a Mrs. Freeman (father's housekeeper) or a Mrs. Irwin (separated from her husband, living with Samuel Ireland); William possibly baptized as William Henry Irwin; signed Dec. 13, 1796 letter to father as "W. H. Freeman"; father called him "Sam" after a deceased son; William sometimes signed himself as "Samuel Ireland, junior" and "S.W.H. Ireland")
  • A ballade, wrotton on the feastynge and merrimentes of Easter Maunday, 1802:t.p. (Paul Persius, a learnedd clerke and monke of the Broderhoode of the Blacke Fryers, London); note: a forgery by W.H. Ireland