Life
?-1753 [also Shiells, or Shields]; compiler, employed as amanuensis on
Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary; chief contributor to Lives of
the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the time of Dean Swift (1753)
[Colley]; published Musidorus (1748) and other poems. ODNB
References
Dictionary of National Biography: under Colley, Shiels wrote most of the
Irish dramatist & actors’ lives in Theophilus Cibber’s Lives
of the Poets.
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