Samuel Boyce was an English dramatist.

Boyce was originally an engraver, and subsequently worked in the South Sea House. He published one play, entitled The Rover, or Happiness at Last, a dramatic pastoral (1752), which was never performed. In an advertisement, he claimed that this was due to its length, and not to its lack of merit. He also published Poems on several Occasions (1757), which included an ode entitled Glory, addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and a heroic poem in two cantos called Paris, or the Force of Beauty. A copy the book was in the Garrick

David Garrick

David Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...

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He died 21 March 1775, in Shoe Lane, near Farringdon Market

Farringdon Market

Farringdon Market was a market erected in 1829 to replace the Fleet Market, which had been cleared for the widening of Farringdon Street and Farringdon Road. The market was between Farringdon Street east and Shoe Lane west, north of Stonecutter Street, in the City of London ward of Farringdon...

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Works

• The Rover, or Happiness at Last, a dramatic pastoral (1752)
• An Ode to the Right Hon. the marquis of Harrington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1755)
• Paris, or the force of Beauty; a poem in two cantos (1755)
• Poems on several Occasions] (London 1757)
• New Song on the Arrival of the Cherokee King and His Chiefs found in Imagining native America in music, pp. 52-3, Michael Pisani (Yale 2005). The poem coincides with visit arranged by Henry Timberlake in 1764.