Author: Teede, Richard
Biography:
TEEDE, Richard (1756-1840: findmypast.com)
Teede published only one work, the insipid Corin and Olinda: a Legendary Tale (1774) dedicated to the Countess of Arlington. In two very brief reviews CR approved of its “agreeable strain of simplicity” but MR fulminated against the choice of genre, observing tartly, “Since the publication of Armine and Elvira [by Edmund Cartwright, q.v.], what stuff, under the title of Legendary Tales?” There is only one person of this name recorded in Britain at the time. He was the son of Elizabeth (Meers) and George Christophe Teede and was baptised Richard John Teede at St. James, Piccadilly, London, on 30 Mar. 1756. He married Mary West at St. Luke’s, Old Street, Finsbury, on 19 Mar. 1796. They lived at Sevenoaks in Kent; the marriage was childless and Mary Teede was buried on 24 Aug. 1821 at St. Nicholas, Sevenoaks. At some point after making a will in which he left everything to a nephew, Teede moved to No. 5, Sloane Square, London, where he was buried at St. Luke’s, Chelsea, on 25 Jan. 1840. (ancestry.com 8 Aug. 2024; findmypast.com 8 Aug. 2024; CR 37 [1774], 315; MR 51 [1775], 166) HJ