Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician mb-code 1238226 William Combes

William Combes

Seeing's Believing

'The Return of Ulysses'

View showing the back of the Queen's Head Inn

to her right is a bust of Handel on a plinth

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician mb-code 1238226 William CombesOliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician, (1912). Irish born British playwright, dramatist and novelist Goldsmith (1730 1774) is best remembered for the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the play She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Illustration from Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London, New York, 1912).