sworth. Under that nobleman
he took up arms in 1688 for William of Orange, and was appointed in
return carver to the king's closet. He died rich, and, according to
Horace Walpole, built the Danish church in London, where he lies buried
beside his second wife, to whom he erected a monument. She was a Miss
Colley of Glaiston, grand-daughter of Sir Anthony Colley, and the mother
of his son Colley Cibber.

CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757), English actor and dramatist, was born in
London on the 6th of November 1671, the eldest son of Caius Gabriel
Cibber, the sculptor. Sent in 1682 to the free school at Grantham,
Lincolnshire, the boy distinguished himself by an aptitude for writing
verse. He produced an "Oration" on the death of Charles II.--whom he had
seen feeding his ducks in St James's Park,--and an "Ode" on the
accession of James II. He was removed from school in 1687 on the chance
of election to Winchester College. His father, however, had not then
presented that institution with his statue of William of Wykeham, and
the son was rejected, although through his mother he claimed to be of
"founder's kin." The boy went to London, and indulged his passion for
the theatre. He was invited to Chatsworth, the seat of William
Cavendish, earl (afterwards duke) of Devonshire, for whom his father was
then executing commissions, and he was on his way when the news of the
landing of William of Orange was received; father and son met at
Nottingham, and Colley Cibber was taken into Devonshire's company of
volunteers. He served in the bloodless campaign that resulted in the
coronation of the Prince of Orange, and on its conclusion presented a
Latin petition to the earl imploring his interest. The earl did nothing
for him, however, and he enrolled himself (1690) as an actor in
Betterton's company at Drury Lane.

After playing "full three-quarters of a year" without salary, as was
then the custom of all apprentice actors, he was paid ten shillings a
week. His rendering of the little part of the chaplain in Otway's
_Orphan_ procured him a rise of five shillings; and a subsequent
impersonation (1694) on an emergency, and at the author's request, of
Lord Touchwood in _The Double Dealer_, advanced him, on Congreve's
recommendation, to a pound a week. On this, supplemented by an allowance
of L20 a year from his father, he contrived to live with his wife and
family--he had married in 1693--and to produce a play, _Love's Last
Shift, or the Fo