He was educated in English and Hebrew, writing poetry, drama, essays and translations from a young age.
[1][2] Joseph left England in 1815 with a contingent of Londoners hoping to fight against the Spanish in the South American wars of independence.
[6] In response to the annually recurring imposition of martial law from 1815 onwards by the Governor of Trinidad, Sir Ralph Woodford, Joseph wrote a musical farce in 1832 titled "Martial law in Trinidad; a musical farce in two acts.".
[7] It satirized the annual muster of militia troops each Christmas to squash the possibility of a local slave rebellion.
[6] Media related to Edward Lanzer Joseph at Wikimedia Commons This Trinidadian biographical article is a stub.