C. Pelham Thompson

Life
[fl.1814; var. Thomson]; a Belfast playwright; author of Rokeby, or the Buccaneer’s Revenge, dram. vers. of W. Scott poem (Dublin 1814); Jack Robinson and His Monkey, melodrama (Surrey 1828); Nothing Superfluous, operatic farce (Haymarket 1829); The Shade, or Blood for Blood, 2 act dram. (Haymarket 1829); The Dumb Savoyard (Coburg 1830); The King’s Command, 2 act farce (Adelphi 1835). RAF

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References
Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre: Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period up to the Present Day (Tralee: The Kerryman 1946); C. Thompson (fl.1814); b. Belfast; lists Rokeby or the Buccaneer’s Revenge, 3 act drama in verse based on Scott, and printed in Dublin in 1824. [See PI; see also The Warder, 13 Jan. 1866.]

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