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John Boles Watson (c. 1748 – 1813 Cheltenham) built the first permanent theatre in
Cheltenham Cheltenham () is a historic spa town and borough adjacent to the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort following the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, and claims to be the mo ...
at York Passage, 1782. Boles Watson also built the Theatre Royal, Gloucester, in 1791Palace (Gloucester).
theatrestrust.org.uk, 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011. and was closely associated with the
Cirencester Cirencester ( , ; see #Pronunciation, below for more variations) is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames. It is the List of ...
theatre.


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External links


'The Watsons of Kilconnor, County Carlow, 1650 - Present', 2019 by Peter Coutts and Alan Watson


Further reading

*Denning, Anthony. (1993) ''Theatre in the Cotswolds: The Boles Watson Family and the Cirencester Theatre''. London: Society for Theatre Research. 1740s births 1813 deaths English theatre managers and producers {{Theat-bio-stub