Here lived the maritime artist Nicholas Pocock, father of the playwright and painter Isaac Pocock who was born here and baptised in nearby St Stephen’s Church. His first piece was a musical farce in two acts, Yes or No, produced at the Haymarket in 1808, and performed at Bristol’s Theatre Royal. His Hit or Miss was a great advance, running for thirty-three nights, whilst his Zembacca, first given at Covent Garden as a holiday piece, was equally successful. He was a prolific writer, and nearly all his plays enjoyed a large measure of public favour. Among his most successful efforts were his dramatic rendering of Scott's novels, notably Rob Roy, with Macready (who would later become the Theatre Royal’s manager) in the chief role, which proved exceedingly popular. In all, it has been estimated that Pocock wrote forty-eight stage pieces, comprising of twenty-six melodramas or musical dramas, nine farces, four operatic farces, and nine other works (four classed an interlude, a ballet, a comic opera, and an entertainment, and five unspecified).