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Burgoyne, Sir John

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Burgoyne, Sir John (1722–92), nicknamed ‘Gentleman Johnny’, remembered principally as the general who was forced to capitulate to the Americans at Saratoga in 1777, was the author of a clever and successful comedy The Heiress (1786), in which the vulgarity of the rich Alscrip family is contrasted with the native good breeding of Clifford, Lord Gayville, and his sister; while the temporary humiliation of the virtuous heroine Miss Alton, who is driven to take service in the Alscrip family until she is discovered to be an heiress and Clifford's sister, provides a sentimental interest. He figures in G. B. Shaw's play The Devil's Disciple (1900).

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