John Palmer

(1744-1798)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Palmer, John, 1742?-1798 DNB: Palmer, John (1744-1798), actor LBT ID: JoPalme1798 VIAF ID: 4019046 LOC ID: n88085298	B/BAP: 1744 DIED: 1798-08-02
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English comic actor who created the character of Joseph Surface in Sheridan's School for Scandal (1777).
REFERENCES TO John Palmer: Robert Bland to John Herman Merivale, 6 June 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 1: ¶ n2 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 1: ¶ 5 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XI. 1812.