''Colonel Newcome'' is a 1906 play by the British writer Michael Morton. It is based on the character from the 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray novel ''

The Newcomes ''The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family'' is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855. Publication ''The Newcomes'' was published serially over about two years, as Thackeray himself says in one of t ...

''. The part was written for the actor

Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progra ...

.Matthews p.152

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* Matthews, Brander. ''Playwrights on playmaking, and other studies of the stage''. 1923. Plays by Michael Morton 1906 plays Plays based on novels {{1900s-play-stub