Andrew Cherry
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Andrew Cherry (January 11, 1762 – February 12, 1812) was an Irish dramatist, songwriter, actor and theatre manager.
The son of a bookseller at Limerick, Ireland, Cherry was a successful actor, and managed theatres in the provinces. He also wrote some plays, of which The Soldier's Daughter is the best. His chief claim to remembrance rests on his three songs, "The Bay of Biscay", "The Dear Little Shamrock" (or "Green Little Shamrock"), and "Tom Moody".
At the end of his life he was said to be mananaging a Welsh theatrical company when he died at Monmouth.[1]
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- ^ Joseph Knight, ‘Cherry, Andrew (1762–1812)’, rev. John Wells, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 1 Feb 2012
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
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