Richard Brinsley Peake

(1792-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847 NRA: Peake Richard Brinsley (1792-1847) Dramatist DNB: Peake, Richard Brinsley (1792-1847), playwright LBT ID: RiPeake1847 VIAF ID: 20108590 LOC ID: n82108876	B/BAP: 1792-02-19 DIED: 1847-10-04
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English playwright, author of comedies and farces, and a melodrama, Presumption, or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1824). His father, also Richard, was treasurer of Drury Lane Theatre.
REFERENCES TO Richard Brinsley Peake: Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 40 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Past Times Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 1: ¶ 4 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VI. Found 3: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15