Thomas Holcroft

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Milestones

10 December 1745

TH , future novelist, playwright and autobiographer, was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square), in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

23 March 1809

TH , novelist, playwright and autobiographer, died, destitute, in Clipstone Street, Marylebone, London.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, p. 1: xv - lv.
lviii, liv
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
79 (1809): 286

Biography

Birth and Family

10 December 1745

TH , future novelist, playwright and autobiographer, was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square), in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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