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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an old actor. (search)
ut in 1839 returned to England, and on the opening night at the New Drury Lane appeared as "Laertes" in Hamlet. "At the age of twenty-two he replaced Mr. Booth in playing 'lago' to Kean's 'Othello.' About this time he received very tempting offers from New York, and having, by the intervention of Lord Byron, who was his personal friend, obtained two years leave of absence from the management of Drury Lane, he made his first appearance in America at the Park Theatre, of this city, September 7, 1818, in the character of 'Macbeth.' --After two years of remarkable success here, he returned to London, where he remained only one season, making then a second visit to America. Having been injured shortly afterwards by the upsetting of a coach, he went home to recruit, but returned for another season to the United States, and after that became stage manager of Drury Lane, under Elliston, performing also the leading characters. In 1836, he opened the National Theatre, at the corner of Ch