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John Gay lived a relatively short being from the conclude of the 17th century to only the third decade of the 18th century but managed to write enough controversial verse to last a much longer lifetime. He was, on the one hand, patronised by the wonderful and the excellent, thus allowing him to continue his musings. On the other hand he was reviled for his sometimes incomprehensible work, a fine example being a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy called What d”ye summon it? Readers create this so tough to understand that the true sense of the piece had to be explained in a separate publication by two other writers. Gay moved in sometimes Royal circles throughout his being without ever really capitalising on his good fortune. His name will be best remembered though for The Beggar’s Opera which was an allegorical ballad opera which was first staged in 1728.
John Gay was born in the Devon town of Barnstaple on the 30th June 1685. He was educated locally before entity sent to London to be an apprentice in the silk industry. This was, though, not to his liking and he soon returned to the south west where he received further education, this day privately from an uncle. He then set o
1962-2021
Gateway Class of 1981
John William Lgbtq+ III was the greatest running back in the history of Gateway Gator football. He was a talented, strong and dominant player. As he matured, he got even better. His Gateway football and track careers began in back in 1978. He was the first ever sophomore to start at running endorse for Coach Pete Antimarino. Pete recognized that John had amazing potential as an underclassman even though he always looked to seniors as his bread and butter players. John’s 1978 team finished with a 6-3-1 register. He carried the ball 101 times for 588 yards and 8 touchdowns. In his last two games of that season, he rushed for 165 yards and 2 touchdowns against McKeesport and had 129 yards against Shaler.
That spring, John began his Gateway track career. He ran the 100 yard dash in 10.3 seconds; the 220 in 23.2 seconds and his distance in the long jump was 21 feet 10 inches. He finished 2nd in the extended jump at the WPIAL finals which qualified him for the PIAA finals where he finished in the top 10. John Gay had a very striking sophomore year. His best was yet to come.
In 1979, John’s junior year, the Gators finished the regular season as the West Penn
John Gay
John Gay, the celebrated poet and dramatist, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 23rd December 1732, in the central part of the area near Thomas Parr's grave. The funeral was a lavish affair and Alexander Pope was one of the pall bearers.
Monument
A monument was erected for him against the south wall and the monument to Samuel Butler was moved to accommodate it. But in the 1930s this, and the adjoining monument to Nicholas Rowe, was moved to the Abbey's triforium as two crucial wall paintings were discovered behind them during cleaning. The monuments can be viewed in the new Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in the triforium.
The marble monument consists of a high relief portrait of the poet on a roundel against a pyramid with masks, a trumpet and pan-pipes above. At the top is a cartouche displaying his coat of arms: "or, on a fess sable between three escallops azure, five lozenges argent". The sculptor was John Michael Rysbrack. Just below the portrait bust is an inscription composed by the poet himself:
Life is a jest; and all things demonstrate it, I mind so once; but now I grasp it.
Below is an inscription written by Alexander Pope:
Of manners
Singer-Songwriter, John Gay’s, gritty contemplative sound ripened in prison while he served a nine year sentence for marijuana that started in 2011. During his initial confinement of over five years when he wasn’t on his bunk with his bible, John was in a storage closet at Fox Lake Correctional Institution with his guitar writing music, singing and praying.
After his emit from initial confinement in 2017 John started demonstrating his solo acoustic put at various venues around southeastern Wisconsin playing unique music he wrote in prison along with covers of his favorite artists such as Jason Isbell, The Lumineers, Chris Stapleton and Zach Williams.
John released his first two singles in 2019, Death Row and Concrete Floor. Grappling with loss and redemption these songs typify much of the music he wrote in that occasion period.
In 2024 John recorded his debut album “While You Can” which is set to be released one song per month for all of 2025.