[1][2][3] On that basis he was educated at Merchant Taylor's School[4] and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He lost considerable sums in the South Sea bubble during 1721, and died at Totteridge, where he was buried on 1 September 1730.
The work was edited by Martha Whincop, the widow, who dedicated the volume to the Earl of Middlesex.
The book was based for the most part on the ‘English Dramatic Poets’ (1691) of Gerard Langbaine the younger.
Whincop's works were later merged in those of Benjamin Victor, David Erskine Baker, and Isaac Reed.