id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6395 Richard Steele - Wikipedia .html text/html 2210 291 71 Sir Richard Steele by Godfrey Kneller c.1712, National Portrait Gallery, London (one of the "Kit-Cat Portraits") Steele was largely raised by his uncle and aunt, Henry Gascoigne (secretary to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde), and Lady Katherine Mildmay.[1] A member of the Protestant gentry, he was educated at Charterhouse School, where he first met Addison. When George I of Great Britain came to the throne in the following year, Steele was knighted and given responsibility for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Sir Richard Steele's House at Llangunnor near Carmarthen, 1797 Of the 271 essays published in The Tatler, Joseph Addison (left) wrote 42, Richard Steele (right) wrote roughly 188, and the rest were collaborations between the two writers. "Steele, Sir Richard". "The Life of Sir Richard Steele". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richard Steele. The Life of Richard Steele.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Works by Richard Steele at Project Gutenberg ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6395.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6395.txt