View source for Gabriel Odingsells 1690?-1734

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===[[name::Gabriel]] [[name::ODINGSELLS]] or [[name::ODINSELLS]] [[date of birth::1690|1690?]]-[[date of death::1734]]===
[[file:Odingsells.jpg|thumb|Odingsells' bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 22184)]]
====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::London]], son of [[family::Gabriel Odingsells b.1653|Gabriel Odingsells]]. Matriculated at [[education::Pembroke, College, Oxford]] 1707, but did not graduate; he returned to [[location::London]] where he sought to develop a career as a [[occupation::playwright]]. His first play, ''The Bath unmask'd'' was staged in 1725, and several followed up to 1730, but he was not judged a literary success either by his contemporaries, or posterity. He committed suicide in 1734.

====Books====
Odingsells used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 22184). His library was sold by retail sale in London, 21.5.1734.

====Sources====
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*Alston, R. C., ''Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800'', St Philip, 2010.
*''A catalogue of the library of ... Gabriel Odingsells'', London, 1734, ESTC t81781.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
*Jones, William R. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/20540 "Odingsells, Gabriel (1690?–1734), playwright."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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