- Temple Stanyan
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Temple Stanyan est un écrivain et politicien anglais né vers 1695 et mort en 1752, fils d'Abraham Stanyan.
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Éléments biographiques[1]
Son épouse décède le 23 mars 1725. Remarié en 1726 avec une certaine Mrs. Pauncefort. Temple a une fille unique, né vers 1726 (du second lit, donc) et décédée le 19 février 1801. En 1759, elle épouse l'amiral Sir Charles Hardy. De leurs 3 fils et 2 filles seul survivra un fils, Temple Hardy, Captain in His Majesty's Navy qui érigea un monument à la mémoire de sa mère dans une église de Southampton.
Fonctions politiques connues de Temple Stanyan :
- l'un des the Chief Clerks in the office of Secretary of State [2]
- Minister at Constantinople and at several other courts
- Sous-secrétaire d'État sous Joseph Addison et sous le Duc de Newcastle.
The following anecdote rests on the authority of Dr. Birch : Mr. Temple Stanyan borrowed on some exigency a sum of money from Addison, with whom he lived in habits of friendship, conversing on all subjects with equal freedom; but from this time Mr. Stanyan agreed implicitly to every thing Addison advanced, and never, as formerly, disputed his positions. This change of behaviour did not long escape the notice of so acute an observer, to whom it was by no means agreeable. It happened one day that a subject was started, on which they had before keenly controverted one another's notions ; but now Mr, Stanyan entirely acquiesced in Mr. Addison' s opinion, without offering one word in defence of his own. Addison was displeased, and vented his displeasure, by saying, with some emotion, " Sir, either contradict me or pay me my money. [3]
Œuvres
- The Grecian history. London, J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1707-1739. Traduit par Denis Diderot, Paris, Briasson, 1743.
- vol. 1 : From the original of Greece to the end of the Peloponnesian War : containing the space of about 1684 Years. 1707[4].
- vol. 2 : From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Philip of Macedon. 1739.
(...) naive, anecdotal, lacking in criticism, and was strongly influenced, both stylistically and thematically, by Plutarch (Clarke, Greek Studies, 104)[5].
- L'Account of Switzerland. London, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1714. Publié anonymement, cet ouvrage qui lui fut attribué est en fait de son père Abraham.
Bibliographie
- M., Temple Stanyan. In : Notes and Queries, 1850, s1-I: 460. DOI:10.1093/nq/s1-I.28.460-e
- C., Who was Temple Stanyan? In : Notes and Queries, 1850, s1-I: 460. DOI:10.1093/nq/s1-I.28.460-f
Références
Catégories :- Écrivain anglais
- Denis Diderot
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