Joseph Lunn
Joseph Lunn (9 April 1784 – 12 December 1863) was an English dramatist, mostly of comedies and farces. Many of them were produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Life. Lunn was born in Woolwich in 1784, son of William Lunn and his wife Mary. He was an original member of the Dramatic Authors' Society. He lived for some time in Craven Street, London. He died at Grand Parade, Brighton, on 12 December 1863, aged 79. Family. He married in 1815 Elizabeth Wallbridge, and they had two sons Their elder son, William Arthur Brown Lunn, under the pseudonym Arthur  Wallbridge, wrote several humorous works. He also invented in 1843 a "sequential keyboard". Works. Lunn's earliest work, "The Sorrows of Werther", a burlesque, with music by Henry Bishop, was produced at Covent Garden in May 1818, with John Liston and his wife in the chief parts. It was revived at St James's Theatre in October 1836, but apparently remained unpublished. Liston achieved more conspicuous success in four pieces by Lunn, produced at the Haymarket Theatre between 1822 and 1825: Henry Compton also appeared with great success in "Family Jars" and "Fish out of Water", and the latter when  revived at the Lyceum Theatre, London in the autumn of 1874, had a run of more than a hundred nights. Lunn's other works: References. Attribution