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Samuel Johnson

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English dancing-master and dramatist

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel Johnson was an English dancing-master, dramatist and violinist, known especially for his 1729 stage work Hurlothrumbo. This was satirised by Henry Fielding. Life, stage and music Johnson was a native of Cheshire. In 1722 he gave a ball at Manchester, noted by John Byrom, and in 1724 he was in London with his fiddle. He worked to have staged his Hurlothrumbo, which he had shown to Byrom and other friends in Manchester in the previous year.

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