Dion[ysius] Lardner Boucicault, famous Irish actor, playwright, and novelist, was born in Dublin, December 22, 1822,⁽¹⁾ and died in New York, September 18, 1890. He collaborated with Charles Reade in writing "Foul Play" and several other novels (see list under Reade). He was twice married; first to Agnes Robertson and second to Louise Thorndyke.

† Correction made as per Volume 3.

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1	Scribner's Dict. Amer. Biog., II, 475—76, gives the date of his birth December 26, 1820; Kunitz and Haycratt, Brit. Authors, 66-67, with portrait; Frank Leslie's Monthly, XVIII, 1884, 652, with portrait. †"Life, February 24, 1961, 39—44, with illustrations from his play The Octoroon."