Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician Finish:Single The sitter wears spectacles and

The sitter wears spectacles and a moustache

Things went badly for them

with spectators lining the road

Map of the City of London and part of Southwark

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer, poet, and physician Finish:Single The sitter wears spectacles andOliver 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).