Charles Dartiquenave

A more likely supposition is that he was the élève of a refugee French family, whose name he assumed, Another theory is that he was related to John James Dartiquenave, who was buried at Fulham 25 September 1709.

Jonathan Swift and Dartiquenave were friends, and frequently dined and drank with Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell.

‘My friend Dartineuf,’ says Swift in his ‘Journal to Stella,’ ‘is the greatest punner of this town next myself,’ and in another passage of the same journal Swift dubs his friend ‘the man that knows everything and that everybody knows; that knows where a knot of rabble are going on a holiday and when they were there last.’ Alexander Pope in his imitations of Horace, ‘Satire I.,’ allows to each mortal his pleasure, and asserts that none deny Scarsdale his bottle and Darty his ham-pie.

Samuel Johnson recorded (in 1776) that when this book came out Dodsley the publisher remarked to him, ‘I knew Dartineuf well, for I was once his footman.’ Tradition has assigned to Dartiquenave some contributions to the ‘Tatler,’ e.g. a letter in No.

Political patronage gave Dartiquenave from 1706 to 1726 the post of paymaster of the Royal Works, and his salary in 1709 was at the rate of 6s.

He was gazetted surveyor-general of the king's gardens in June 1726, and in March 1731 it was understood that he should be promoted to be surveyor of his majesty's private roads.

[2] A thin folio volume of twenty-three pages, containing his school exercises in Latin and Greek verse, was printed in 1681, with an address to Charles II and a dedication to Lord Halifax.

The engraving was reproduced in the volume of ‘Kit-Cat Club Portraits,’ 1821, and a medallion print from it was prefixed to Nichols's edition of the ‘Tatler,’ vol.