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          Cibber was born in November to well off parents living in Bloomsbury, London.

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          Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cibber, Colley

          ​CIBBER, COLLEY (1671–1757), actor and dramatist, was born in London in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, on 6 Nov.

          1671. ​His father, Caius Gabriel Gibber or Cibert [q. v.], a native of Flensborg, known as a sculptor, settled in England oefore the Restoration. Colley Gibber was the offspring of a second marriage, his mother being Jane, daughter of William CoUey of Glaston, Rutlandshire, and granddaughter of Sir Anthony Golley, whose fortune was lost during the civil war.

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        1. Colley Cibber () was an actor, theatrical impresario, playwright and poet now remembered only for his bowdlerization of William Shakespeare's Richard.
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        3. Colley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.
        4. Born in London, on Nov. 6, , Colley Cibber was the son of the sculptor Caius Gabriel Cibber.

          5. In 1682 Gibber was sent to the free school of Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he remained until 1687, displaying, according to his own confession, a special sharpness of intellect and aptitude for verse writing, which gained him consideration from his masters, and a conceit which rendered him unpopular with his fellows.

          After quitting Grantham to 'stand at the election of children into Winchester College' (Apology, p. 38), upon which in