Nash
an English leader of fashion; born in Swansea, Wales, Oct. 18, 1674. He was the son of an impoverished Welsh gentleman and was educated at Carmarthen and Oxford; held for some time a commission in the army, and next entered at the Middle Temple, but found greater attractions in the dissipations of society than the pursuits of law. He made a shifty living by gambling, but in 1704 he found his true function as master of ceremonies at Bath, where he conducted the public balls with a splendor and decency never before witnessed. He died in poverty, Feb. 3, 1761. and dramatist; born in Lowestoft, Suf- NASH, THOMAS, an English satirist folk, England, in 1567. He graduated at Cambridge in 1584, but was afterward expelled for satirizing the authorities. In conjunction with Marlowe he wrote a drama, "Dido, Queen of Carthage," and in 1592 produced a comedy of his own, "Summer's Last Will and Testament," which was acted before Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1600 or 1601. county-seats of Hillsboro co., N. H.; on