Isaac Pocock

Isaac Pocock (2 March 1782 – 23 August 1835) was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces and light operatic comedies, many being stage adaptations of existing novels. Of his 40 or so works, the most successful was Hit and Miss (1810), a musical farce.[1] The mariner Sir Isaac Pocock (1751–1810) was his uncle.[2]

  1. ^ Christine L. Krueger, George Stade, Karen Karbiener. Encyclopedia of British Writers: 19th and 20th Centuries (Infobase Publishing, 2003) p. 274-5.
  2. ^ Sir Isaac Pocock Senior Archived 6 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Fripp and Pocock families of Bristol, England – 18 November 2010.