Benjamin Thompson

(1776 c.-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thompson, Benjamin, 1776?-1816 NRA: Thompson Benjamin (?1776-1816) Dramatist DNB: Thompson, Benjamin (1775/6–1816), playwright and translator LBT ID: BeThomp1816 VIAF ID: 75194007 LOC ID: n82054723	B/BAP: 1776 DIED: 1816-05-26
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English playwright and novelist who translated Kotzebue's The Stranger; his literary misfortunes were thought to have brought about the apoplectic fit that killed him.
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Thompson: Robert Southey to John Adamson, 6 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIV. 1808 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan II Found 1: ¶ 11