Isaac Pocock

[3] Pocock's first dramatic work was a musical farce in two acts, entitled Yes or No?,[4] produced at the Haymarket Theatre, in London on 31 August 1808, and performed ten times.

It was followed by many similar productions,[3] of which Hit or Miss!,[5] with music by Charles Smith, was by far the most successful, opening at the Lyceum on 26 February 1810, and performed at least 33 times.

For England Ho!, a melodramatic opera, produced at Covent Garden on 15 December 1813, and acted some 11 times, was published in 1814.

John of Paris, a comic opera adapted from the French, was produced at Covent Garden on 12 October 1814, and performed 17 times.

The Magpie or the Maid (John Miller, 1815), a drama in three acts, a second edition of which appeared in 1816, was adapted from the French of Louis-Charles Caigniez and Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny.

"Robinson Crusoe, or the Bold Buccaneers", a romantic drama in two acts, was produced as an Easter piece at Covent Garden in 1817, with Charles Farley in the title rôle and Joseph Grimaldi as Friday.

On 12 March 1818 his Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne, an operatic drama in three acts, was first played at Covent Garden.

[8] William Charles Macready took the title role, John Liston played Baillie Nicol Jarvie, and Miss Stephens Di Vernon.

It was played at Bath, for Farren's benefit, on 15 April 1815, when James Prescott Warde was successful as Rob Roy.

James William Wallack played in Rob Roy at Drury Lane in January 1826; and Madame Vestris impersonated Di Vernon at the Haymarket in October 1824.

Montrose, or the Children of the Mist, three acts, produced at Covent Garden on 14 February 1822, was not so successful, though it was played 19 or 20 times.

[1] They had one son, Isaac John Innes Pocock (28 July 1819 – 28 May 1886), who was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford (B.A.