Henry Robert Addison
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Henry Robert Addison (1805–1876),{{Cite ODNB|id=40230|title=Addison, Henry Robert (1805-1876)|first=John Russell|last=Stephens}} sometimes erroneously called Captain Addison,"Green Room Loungers. No. 12. Captain Addison". Actors by Daylight. J Pattie and W M Clarke. London. 1838. Volume 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=l5QsAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA190 Page 190]. was born in Calcutta. He became a cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards on 12 July 1827, and was promoted to lieutenant on 15 March 1831, which rank he held until 21 June 1833, when he was placed on half pay. He began writing for the stage in 1830 and was the author of about sixty dramas and farces. He was lessee of Queen's Theatre, London from August 1836 to 1837. He wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines. He was author of about twelve novels and stories. He edited Who's Who from 1849 to 1850. He was special correspondent of a morning paper at the Paris exhibition in 1867. He was deputy chairman of London steamboat company. He died at Albion St., Hyde Park, London, on 24 June 1876, aged 71.Frederic Boase. "Addison, Henry Robert" in Modern English Biography. 1892. Volume 1. Page 1819. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GIVmAAAAMAAJ]
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- "Our Portrait Gallery, No. XXIII: Henry R. Addison, Esquire" (1841) 18 Dublin University Magazine [https://books.google.com/books?id=200aAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA505 505]. Portrait on p 504.
- Daryll Grantley. "Addison, Henry Robert" in Historical Dictionary of British Theatre: Early Period. Scarecrow Press. 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uf50AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 Page 26].
- Carty, T J. "Addison, Henry Robert" in Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. 2015. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 Page 247].
- "Addison H. R." The Era Almanack, 1868. Second Edition. Conducted by Edward Ledger. Catherine Street, Strand, London. 1868. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oTY5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17 Page 17].
- Elisabeth Jay. British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875. Oxford University Press. 2016. Pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=-JJPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 86], 90 and 91.
- Houghton and Slingerland. "Addison, Henry Robert" in The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1989. Volume 5. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ff_MQ_jaR54C&pg=PA7 Page 7].
- Sudduth, Carr and Roy. "Tam o' Shanter: A Comic Drama in Two Acts" in The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalogue. The University of South Carolina Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KOGndHvhzdIC&pg=PA145 Page 145].
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