Thomas Morton

(1764-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838 DNB: Morton, Thomas (bap. 1764, d. 1838), playwright LBT ID: ThMorto1838 VIAF ID: 34530533 LOC ID: n82073720	B/BAP: 1764-02-24 DIED: 1838-03-28
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English playwright who wrote comedies for Covent Garden; The Way to Get Married (1796) became a stock piece. He is pilloried by William Gifford in the Baviad.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Morton: Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 23 November 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 103 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1810 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ n1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 2: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: The Past Found 1: ¶ 8 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 38