Poole, JOHN, playwright, born in 1792, died in February 1879 at Kentish Town, London, wrote the immortal Paul Pry, first produced at the Haymarket in 1825, and several other farces and comedies, such as Turning the Tables, Deaf as a Post, 'Twould Puzzle a Conjuror, The Wife's Stratagem, &c. Besides these theatrical pieces he wrote also the satirical Little Pedlington (1839), The Comic Sketch Book (1859), Comic Miscellany (1845), Christmas Festivities (1845), and other books of a light, humorous kind.
Poole, JOHN
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 311
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