Henry Chance Newton was a British author and theatre critic for The Referee

Sunday Referee

The Sunday Referee was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.The paper was founded in 1877 as The Referee, primarily covering sports news...

 magazine.

Newton, in conjunction with Richard Butler

Richard Butler (author)

Richard William Butler was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee magazine in the late Victorian period.He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry, with Henry Chance Newton...

, wrote libretti for musical comedy under the joint collaborative name of Richard Henry

Richard Henry (pseudonym)

Richard Henry is a pseudonym credited on collaborative works of authors Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton.Works attributed to Richard Henry include Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887.-Selected...

. Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim

Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim

Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim is a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry . The music was composed by Meyer Lutz...

, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London

Gaiety Theatre, London

The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...

, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).