John Essex

In 1728 he published his major work The Dancing-Master, or, The Art of Dancing Explained, a translation of Pierre Rameau's Le maître à danser (1725).

He is first mentioned in record in 1702 as a dancer at Drury Lane Theatre, performing serious and comic dances.

[3] His most important book appeared in 1728 The Dancing-Master, or, The Art of Dancing Explained, which was a translation with diagrams of Rameau's Le maître à danser (1725).

This ran to a second edition in 1731 and a third about 1733 which included new illustrations by George Bickham the Younger.

[2] With his wife Catherine (née Hawtayne) (d. 1721), he had six children of whom three died in infancy, all are recorded in the parish register of St Dionis Backchurch.