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JOHN TOBIN (1770-18o4)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1041 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:TOBIN (1770-18o4)  , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury on the 28th of See also:January 1770, the son of a See also:merchant . He was educated at See also:Bristol See also:Grammar School, and practised in See also:London as a See also:solicitor . From 1789 he devoted all his spare See also:time to See also:writing for the See also:stage . He submitted no fewer than thirteen plays before, in 1803, he got an unimportant See also:farce staged . In 1804, having just submitted his fourteenth See also:play, a romantic See also:blank See also:verse See also:drama entitled The See also:Honey See also:Moon, to the See also:Drury See also:Lane management, he came to the conclusion that it was useless to continue playwriting and See also:left London to recruit his See also:health . The See also:news that his play had been accepted came too See also:late . He had See also:long had a tendency to See also:consumption, and was ordered to See also:winter in the See also:West Indies . He left See also:England on the 7th of See also:December 1804, but died on the first See also:day of the voyage . In the following See also:year The Honey Moon was produced at Drury Lane, and proved a See also:great success . Several of See also:Tobin's earlier plays were subsequently produced, of which The School for Authors, a See also:comedy, was probably the best . See also The See also:Memoirs of See also:John Tobin, with a selection from his unpublished writings, by See also:Miss Benger (London, 1820) .

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