John Poole

(1786-1872)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Poole, John, 1786?-1872 NRA: Poole John (? 1786-1872) Dramatist and Miscellaneous Author DNB: Poole, John (1785/6-1872), playwright and writer LBT ID: JoPoole1872 VIAF ID: 89815697 LOC ID: n82154721	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1872-02-04
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic writer and playwright; he contributed to the London Magazine and scored a great theatrical success with Paul Pry (1825). He spent his later years living impoverished in Paris.
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Poole: John Poole to Lady Morgan, 28 March 1841 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)