John Thomas Haines

Born about 1799, from 1823 for two decades he supplied the smaller London theatres with melodramas of the "blood-and-thunder" type, with general success.

His sea-plays were vehicles for T. P. Cooke, and My Poll and my Partner Joe, a nautical drama in three acts, produced at the Surrey Theatre on 7 September 1835, was notably profitable.

He died at Stockwell on 18 May 1843, aged 44, at the time stage-manager of the English Opera House.

[1] Among Haines's plays were:[1] Haines also adapted and arranged from the French of Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges the songs, duets, quartettes, recitatives, and choruses in the opera of Queen for a Day.

Set to music by Adolphe Adam, it was first performed at the Surrey Theatre on 14 June 1841.