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JOHN MADDISON MORTON (1811-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN MADDISON
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MORTON (1811-1891)  ,
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English playwright, was
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born at Pangbourne, on the 3rd of
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January 1811 . He was the author of
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Box and
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Cox (1847) and a number of other farces . In later
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life, however, he failed to maintain his success, and eventually became a
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Charterhouse pensioner, dying on the 19th of
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December 1891 . His
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father,
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Thomas
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Morton (1764?-1838), also a well-known dramatist, was the author of
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Columbus, or a
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World Discovered (1792);
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Speed the Plough (1798); The School of Reform, or How to
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Rule a
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Husband (18o5); A
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Roland for an
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Oliver (1819); and other pieces .

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