Isaac Pocock

Isaac Pocock (2 March 1782 – 23 Aug 1835) was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces and light operatic comedies, many of his works being adapted for stage from existing novels. Of his 40 or so works, the most successful was "Hit and Miss" (1810), a musical farce. (The mariner Sir Isaac Pocock, 1751–1810, was his uncle.)

Isaac Pocock was born in Bristol on 2 March 1782, the eldest son of Nicholas Pocock, marine painter, and Ann Evans (daughter of John Evans of Bristol). William Innes Pocock was his brother. Around 1798, Isaac became a pupil of George Romney, and, after Romney's death in 1802, studied under Sir William Beechey; Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the son of writer William Hayley, was a fellow student under Romney.

Between 1800 and 1805 Pocock exhibited subject-pictures and portraits at the Royal Academy, London, and occasionally showed portraits there during the next fifteen years. In 1807 his ‘Murder of St. Thomas à Becket’ was awarded a prize of £100 by the British Institution. In 1812 Pocock became a member of the Liverpool Academy, and exhibited both oils and water-colours there. His last historical painting was an altar-piece for a new chapel at Maidenhead.

In 1818 Pocock inherited some property at Maidenhead after the death of his uncle, Sir Isaac Pocock (1751–1810, mariner), and after this time devoted himself to writing dramas. For some time he lived in London, and served in the Royal Westminster Volunteers, rising to the rank of Major. Afterwards, he became a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Berkshire, and was an active magistrate.

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