Paul John Merritt (International) assertion Paul John Merritt i(7939638 works by) (birth name: Paul John Maetzker)
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Born: Established: ca. 1843 Kyiv,
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Ukraine,
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Former Soviet Union,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 7 Jul 1895 Kensington, London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Heritage: British
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BiographyHistory

Actor, playwright and theatre manager.

Paul Meritt made his professional acting debut at the Theatre Royal, London, in 1861 and began his writing career soemtime around 1870. Between 1871 and 1874 he wrote melodramas for the Grecian Theatre, and later collaborated with a number of other leading English playwrights, including August Harris, Tom Taylor, Henry Spry, and Henry Pettitt. Arguably the greatest success of his career was The New Babylon (1878). During the early 1880s Meritt partnered George Conquest at the Surrey Theatre, which also led to several jointly written plays.

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Notes

  • Meritt's father, originally from Prague, was a naturalized Briton and sometime private secretary to Sir Edward Earle Gascoyne Bulwer.

  • For further details see: John Russell Stephens. 'Meritt [Maetzker], Paul John (1843/4–1895).' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

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