John Fawcett

(1769-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fawcett, Mr. (John), 1768-1837 NRA: Fawcett, John (1768-1837) Actor and Dramatist DNB: Fawcett, John (1769-1837), actor and playwright LBT ID: JoFawce1837 VIAF ID: 51958044 LOC ID: n82225832	B/BAP: 1769-08-29 DIED: 1837-03-13
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (May 1837) 550-51; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English actor and composer of pantomimes and melodramas, among them Obi, or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800).
REFERENCES TO John Fawcett: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 15 January 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, [1819] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 104 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 17 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 20 Ch. 10: Anecdotes Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IX Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 2