John Conway Philip Astley

(1768-1821)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Astley, John Philip Conway, 1767-1821 DNB: Astley, John Conway Philip (1768–1821) LBT ID: JoAstle1821 VIAF ID: 43284658 LOC ID: n85217768	B/BAP: 1768-09 DIED: 1821-10-19
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The son of the circus proprietor Philip Astley; he was the inventor of the hippodrama performed at Astley's amphitheatre in which battle scenes were enacted using horses.
REFERENCES TO John Conway Philip Astley: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 23 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 101 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XII. 1799 Found 1: ¶ 5