His play
While working as a judge in London in the 1740s he founded the Bow Street  Runners, a group that later was a model for the London police. He was in poor  health late in life and his last book, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, was  written while he was looking for a better climate. His play The Historical  Register for the Year 1736 inspired the Licensing Act of 1737, which ended his  career as a playwright, but not before he wrote The Tragedy of Tragedies; or,  The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. For 10 points name this English  author.
While working as a judge in London in the 1740s he founded the Bow Street  Runners, a group that later was a model for the London police.
Henry Fielding