Sir Richard Steele, Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler.

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Illustration after Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) from the cabinet of Irish literature published in 1903. Info from wiki: Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler.

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