claim: Joseph Merrick was the producer of the play The Elephant Man.
evidence: Cornwallis Maude , 1st Earl de Montalt -LRB- 4 April 1817 -- 9 January 1905 -RRB- , styled The Honourable Cornwallis Maude until 1856 and known as The Viscount Hawarden from 1856 to 1886 , was a British Conservative politician .. British. United Kingdom. Conservative. Conservative Party ( UK )