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See also:JEPHSON, See also:ROBERT (1736-1803) , See also:British dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Ireland. After serving for some years in the British See also:army, he retired with the See also:rank of See also:captain, and lived in See also:England, where he was the friend of See also:Garrick, See also:Reynolds, See also:Goldsmith, See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, See also:Burke, See also:Burney and See also:Charles See also:Townshend. His See also:appointment as See also:master of the See also:horse to the See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of Ireland
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See also:Boswell and Thrale, retailers of his wit,
Will tell you how he wrote, and talk'd, and cough'd, and See also:spit. 11
took him back to See also:Dublin. He published, in the See also:Mercury See also:news-See also:paper a See also:series of articles in See also:defence of the lord-lieutenant's See also:administration which were afterwards collected and issued in See also:book See also:form under the See also:title of The See also:Bachelor, or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe. A See also:pension of £300, afterwards doubled, was granted him, and he held his appointment under twelve succeeding viceroys. From 1775 he was engaged in the See also:writing of plays. Among others, his tragedy See also:Braganza was successfully performed at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1775, See also:Conspiracy in 1796, The See also:Law of See also:Lombardy in 1779, and The See also:Count of See also:Narbonne at Covent See also:Garden in 1781. In 1794 he published an heroic poem See also:Roman Portraits, and The Confessions of Jacques See also:Baptiste Couteau, a See also:satire on the excesses of the See also:French Revolution. He died at Blackrock, near Dublin, on the 31st of May 1803.
End of Article: JEPHSON, ROBERT (1736-1803)
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