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2 unusual facts about George Colman


Francis Godolphin Waldron

On 9 June 1795 he was, at the Haymarket, the first Prompter in George Colman's New Hay at the Old Market.

George Colman

George Colman the Younger (1762–1836), English dramatist, son of the above


Ann Cargill

She was born to a London coal merchant and was a child star, making her debut in November of 1771 at the age of eleven in Covent Garden Theatre singing the role of Titania in George Colman's The Fairy Prince (music by Thomas Arne).

Mary Jane Seaman

Attractive and buxom, she won acceptance as Dowager Lady Duberly in George Colman's The Heir-at-Law, Mrs Candour in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, and Mrs. Hardcastle in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

Nicolas Andry

The engraving captured the attention of contemporary readers; it is referred to, for example, in George Colman's 1787 comic opera Inkle and Yarico.


see also

Squire Hardman

Squire Hardman (poem), a pornographic poem published by John Glassco in 1967, falsely attributed to George Colman the Younger