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JEPHSON, ROBERT (1736-1803)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 322 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JEPHSON, ROBERT (1736-1803) , British dramatist, was born in Ireland. After serving for some years in the British army, he retired with the rank of captain, and lived in England, where he was the friend of
Garrick
 , Reynolds, Goldsmith, Johnson,
Burke
 ,
Burney
  and Charles Townshend. His appointment as master of the horse to the lord-
lieutenant
  of Ireland
i Two lines will suffice:
Boswell and Thrale, retailers of his wit,
Will tell you how he wrote, and talk'd, and cough'd, and spit. 11
took him back to Dublin. He published, in the Mercury news-
paper
  a
series
  of articles in defence of the lord-
lieutenant
 's administration which were afterwards collected and issued in book form under the title of The Bachelor, or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe. A pension of 300, afterwards doubled, was granted him, and he held his appointment under twelve succeeding viceroys. From 1775 he was engaged in the writing of plays. Among others, his tragedy Braganza was successfully performed at Drury Lane in 1775, Conspiracy in 1796, The Law of Lombardy in 1779, and The
Count
  of Narbonne at Covent
Garden
  in 1781. In 1794 he published an heroic poem Roman Portraits, and The Confessions of Jacques Baptiste Couteau, a
satire
  on the excesses of the French Revolution. He died at Blackrock, near Dublin, on the 31st of May 1803.


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