Ambrose Eccles

[1][2] He was the son of Hugh Eccles, of Cronroe, County Wicklow, and his wife Elizabeth Ambrose.

He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and then travelled in France and Italy, but returned home through illness.

[1] Eccles was in London in 1763, and was a guest of James Boswell at the Mitre tavern.

[1] Eccles was a dramatic critic, and published editions of several of Shakespeare's plays, in which he transposed scenes that appeared to him to be wrongly placed.

These plays were Cymbeline, 1793; King Lear, 1793; and Merchant of Venice, 1805.