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See also: English playwright, son of See also: Henry
See also: Byron, at one See also: time See also: British See also: consul at See also: Port-au-See also: Prince, was See also: born in Manchester in See also: January 1834
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He entered the See also: Middle See also: Temple as a student in 1858, with the intention of devoting his time to See also: play-writing
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He soon ceased to make any pretence of legal study, and joined a provincial See also: company as an actor
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In this See also: line he never made any real success; and, though he continued to See also: act for years, chiefly in his own plays, he had neither originality nor charm
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Meanwhile he wrote assiduously, and few men have produced so many pieces of so diverse a nature
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He was the first editor of the weekly comic paper, Fun, and started the See also: short-lived Comic Trials
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His first successes were in burlesque; but in 1865 he joined See also: Miss See also: Marie See also: Wilton (afterwards Lady See also: Bancroft) in the management of the Prince of See also: Wales's theatre, near See also: Tottenham See also: Court Road
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Here several of his pieces, comedies and extravaganzas were produced with success; but, upon his severing the partnership two years later, and starting management on his own account in the provinces, he was financially unfortunate
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The commercial success of his See also: life was secured with Our Boys, which was played at the See also: Vaudeville from January 1875 till See also: April 1879—a then unprecedented " run." The Upper Crust, another of his successes, gave a congenial opportunity to Mr J
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See also: Toole for one of his
inimitably broad character-sketches
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During the last few years of his life Byron was in frail See also: health; he died in Clapham on the firth of April 1884
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H . J . Byron was the author of some of the most popular stage pieces of hisSee also: day
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Yet his extravaganzas have no wit but that of violence; his rhyming couplets are without See also: polish, and decorated only by forced and often pointless puns
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His sentiment had T
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See also: Robertson's insipidity without its freshness, and restored an See also: element of vulgarity which his predecessor had laboured to eradicate from theatrical tradition
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He could draw a " See also: Cockney " character with some fidelity, but his dramatis personae were usually See also: mere puppets for the utterance of his jests
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Byron was also the author of a novel, Paid in Full (1865), which appeared originally in Temple See also: Bar
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In his social relations he had many See also: friends, among whom he was justly popular for geniality and imperturbable See also: good temper
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