- Born in England but raised in Ireland, William Congreve (1670-1729) rapidly rose to literary fame after graduating from college and moving to England.
- William Congreve image. star null. ... an English playwright and poet. Early Life. Congreve was born in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England (near Leeds).
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- William Congreve (1670–1729). →. ... "William Congreve," in The lives of the most eminent English poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp. 39–61.
- William Congreve was born in Yorkshire and was educated at Kilkenny School and Trinity College, Dublin. ... Congreve was an entertaining and colourful character.
- William Congreve was born on 24 January 1670. He was a writer, known for Beryl Reid (1977), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Drama (1977).
- He was the son of William Congreve, a soldier who was soon after his son's birth placed in command of the garrison at Youghal.
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- William Congreve began writing some thirty years after the Restoration, yet his plays retain many of the concerns of those written in the 1660’s and 1670’s.