Thomas Holcroft

Thomas Holcroft
Portrait, oil on canvas, of Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) by John Opie (1761–1807)
Born	(1745-12-10)10 December 1745 Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London
Died	23 March 1809(1809-03-23) (aged 63)
Occupation	Dramatist
Years active	1778-1802

Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator. He was sympathetic to the early ideas of the French Revolution and helped Thomas Paine to publish the first part of The Rights of Man.