Joseph Glossop

(1848 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Glossop, Joseph, d. 1835 LBT ID: JoGloss1835 VIAF ID: 78910730 LOC ID: no2009015150
SOURCES: Joe Cowell, Thirty Years passed among the Players in England and America (1844) 48; Frederick Pollack, ed. The Revised Court of Cases, Sayer vs. Glossop, 1848, June 6. London:Sweet and Maxwell, 76 (643); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English theater manager; the son of a wealthy soap-boiler and candle-maker, he married the singer Elizabeth Feron and managed the Cobourg Theater, afterwards the Old Vic. After suffering bankruptcy he spent his later years in Italy.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Glossop: Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, 23 January 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 18 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823