Robert Jephson

(1736 c.-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803 DNB: Jephson, Robert (1736/7-1803), playwright LBT ID: RoJephs1803 VIAF ID: 59440783 LOC ID: n80019581	B/BAP: 1736 DIED: 1803-05-31
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Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was an Irish playwright and friend of Edmond Malone; he wrote The Count of Narbonne, (1781) based on Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto.
REFERENCES TO Robert Jephson: Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 3