Talk:Samuel Foote

message: The career and skills of Macklin are somewhat tangential to those of Foote, aren't they? Do we really need a picture? --Hugh7 (talk) 08:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: too much Macklin?

message: The pic on this page was of the Queen's/King's Theatre - on the West of the Haymarket, on the site of the present Her Majesty's Theatre. Foote's theatre, the present Haymarket Theatre (Theatre Royal), is opposite, on the East side. Tim Riley 15:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn, now I must go find a pic of it...*sigh*. Thanks for the info! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 03:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vanbrugh's theatre

message: I have been bold regarding "Grand Panjandrum" versus "Great Panjandrum". The WWII device was most definitely a Great Panjandrum. However the earliest quoted version of Foote's nonsense is from the novel Harry and Lucy Concluded (vol. 2) (1820) by Maria Edgeworth where she gives "grand Panjandrum" (although she uses both phrases elsewhere in the novel). E. Cobham Brewer also uses both phrases in Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction & the Drama (1860) but in his direct quote he gives "grand Panjandrum" also. --Dominic Sayers (talk) 14:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great or Grand? 

message: Comedic is more precise than Comic, and hence is more accurate in the article.  "Comedic" mostly refers to things involving "Comedy", whereas "Comic" has the all-purpose sense of funny attached to it.  While I'm sure Foote was an all-round funny guy, and that this is well-documend, that's not what he's known for.  It's his writing and acting concerning Comedies that has put him in the history books.  The article's lede should reflect this. Choor monster (talk) 14:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comic vs. Comedic 

message: Mrs Gardner was in Foote's Company of Comedians after she married - she then moved ion with Foote as a housekeeper. Victuallers (talk) 14:19, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Housekeeper?

message: Contrary to your article, Samuel Foot (1620-1691), MP for Tiverton, was not the father of Samuel Foot the Dramatist and was deceased almost 30 years before the Dramatist’s birth in 1720 [1].
Samuel the MP had one son William, who died childless in 1696, the Estate passing to the daughters of the MP.
Samuel the Dramatist’s father was Samuel (1678-1754): a Magistrate, his seat being at Pencalenick, Truro [2].
Extract from the register of baptisms (1720) St. Mary’s, Truro:
“Samuel, son of Samuel Foote Esq. and Eleanor his wife, baptised Jan 27th Joseph Jane, Rector.”
Samuel Foot MP for Tiverton is likewise erroneously credited with being the father of John (1668) - ancestor to the Irish Branch of the Foot Family, who came to Ireland as a Lieutenant in William of Orange’s Army [3].  John’s father was Simon of Truro, Cornwall.
1. The History of Parliament (Members Biographies) British Political, Social and Local History BD Henning 1983.
2. An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol. 2 Part 1 by Charles Sandoe Gilbert.
3. Burke’s Landed Gentry 1904.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sheila Foot (talk • contribs) 18:19, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foote family