b. Calcutta; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 July 1827; lieut. 15 March 1831 to 21 June 1833 when placed on half pay; began writing for the stage 1830; author of about 60 dramas and farces; lessee of Queen’s theatre London Aug. 1836–1837; wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines; edited Who’s Who 1849–50; special correspondent of a morning paper at Paris exhibition 1867; deputy chairman of London steamboat company; author of about 12 novels and stories. d. Albion st. Hyde park, London 24 June 1876 aged 71. Dublin Univ. Mag. xviii, 505 (1841) portrait.

b. London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July 1817 in The blue devils at Haymarket theatre; visited United states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in Mazeppa 2 April 1838; author of many plays. d. in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug. 1851.

d. 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.

b. 1774; exhibited portraits at the R.A. 1800–1806; brought out a musical play called Auld Robin Gray at Haymarket theatre 1794; exhibited a panorama in Spring gardens; member of “Sublime society of beefsteaks” 15 April 1809; opened Lyceum theatre as an English opera house 26 June 1809; built new theatre on same site and opened it as the English opera house 15 June 1816, it was burnt down 16 Feb. 1830, he rebuilt it and opened it 14 July 1834; manager of Drury [Page 88]88Lane theatre 1812–15; author of The Creole or haunted island 3 vols. 1796; The shipwreck, a comic opera in 2 acts 1796; Man and wife, comedy in 5 acts 1809, 8 ed. 1809. (m. 18 May 1802 Matilda Catherine younger dau. of Henry James Pye, poet laureate). d. Walton upon Thames 16 Aug. 1852 in 78 year. G.M. xxxviii, 538 (1852).

b. London 16 Aug. 1799; lived in Paris; acted at Brighton and Bath; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane 1833 as Captain O’Cutter; wrote and performed title rôle in Monsieur Jacques, a musical piece which created a furore at St. James’s theatre 1837; played at Princess’s theatre; musical critic of Morning Post and The Era nearly 7 years; gave a series of farewell performances at Adelphi theatre 1854; wrote many dramas best known being The Serious family, Lilian Gervais and Married and unmarried. d. Montreal, Canada 18 March 1856. Actors by gaslight (1838) p. 137, portrait; I.L.N. xxv, 305 (1854), portrait.

b. Whitehall 1786; served as a volunteer in the Peninsula; designed St. James’s, Lyceum and City of London theatres, also 2 theatres in Dublin, 2 in Belgium, 2 in India and 1 in Brazil; erected London Bridge railway station, most of the stations on North Kent line and Lord Warden hotel at Dover; wrote and arranged more than 100 dramatic pieces chiefly farces and short comedies; author of The Roué [anon.] 3 vols. 1828; The Oxonians, a glance at society 3 vols. 1830. d. Tunbridge Castle 12 Oct. 1851 in 66 year. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities, I have known, 2 series ii, 70–90 (1877); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Percy Hamilton 1851 in which he is drawn to the life.

b. Pleasant st. Boston U.S. 27 Nov. 1809; came to England 1820; clerk in Army accounts office 1826–30 when office was abolished; wrote much dramatic and other criticism for the press; author of The freebooter’s bride 5 vols. 1828; Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. 1874 and of 114 plays, best known being Rip Van Winkle 1832; The nervous man 1833; The man about town 1836; Marie Ducange 1837; His last legs 1839; The boarding school 1841; The round of wrong 1846. d. Brighton 5 Aug. 1875. The Era Almanac (1868) 17–18.

b. Dublin 20 or 26 Dec. 1820; educ. Univ. coll, sch. London 1833-5 ; first appeared on the stage at Bristol as Jack Sheppard ; produced London assurance, a 5-act comedy by Lee Morton, at Covent Garden 4 March 1841, but on the 20th night the author was called D. L. Bourcicault ; produced Alma mater: or a cure for coquettes 19 Sept. 1842, Old heads and young hearts 18 Nov. 1844, both at Haymarket, The Vampire at Princess's 14 June 1852, in which he made his début in London as the Vampire; produced The Corsican brothers, the first English version of Grangé and de Montépin’s Les fréres Corses, at Princess’s theatre Feb. 1852, revived at Lyceum 18 Sept. 1880; sailed for America, Aug. 1853; produced at Burton's theatre, New York 23 Nov. 1853 The Fox hunt; his version of Gerald Griffin's Irish story The Collegians, entitled The Colleen Bawn, or the brides of Garryowen, was produced at Laura Keene's theatre, New York 27 March 1860, Boucicault playing Myles-na-Coppalean, he produced it at Adelphi London 10 Sept, 1860, it ran 264 nights to 13 July 1861 ; produced his drama The Octoroon at Winter garden theatre, New York 1 Dec. 1859 and at Adelphi, London 18 Nov. 1861; sub-tenant of Drury Lane theatre, Sept. to Dec. 1862, produced his drama Tho relief of Lucknow 19 Sept. ; opened Astley’s as The theatre royal, Westminster 22 Dec. 1862, produced The trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany. 1863; produced The streets of London at Princess’s 5 Aug. 1864, which ran 209 nights, already produced by him at New York, Leeds and Liverpool; produced Arragh-na-Pogue at T.R. Dublin 7 Nov. 1864 and at Princess's 22 March 1865, Rip van Winkle, Adelphi 4 Sept. 1865, The flying scud at opening of Holborn theatre 6 Oct. 1866, Hunted down at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1866, Formosa or the railroad to ruin at Drury Lane 4 Aug. 1869, Elfie, or the Cherry tree inn, T.R. Glasgow 10 March 1871 and Gaiety, London 4 Dec, 1871, The Shaughran, Adelphi 24 April 1880 playing Conn, The Jilt, Prince's 29 July 1886 playing Myles O’Hara, his last part in London; author with C. J. Mathews of Used up, Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, with Charles Reade of Foul Play, Holborn 28 May 1868, with H. J. Byron of Lost at sea, Adelphi 2 Oct. 1869 and with J. R. Planché of Babil and Bijou, Covent Garden 29 Aug, 1872, revived at Alhambra 8 April 1882 and copyright of it sold for 1 1/2 guineas 17 Oct. 1889; introduced system of percentages for dramatists, clearing £20,000 out of The Colleen Bawn ; bankrupt 1 July 1863, discharged 14 Aug. ; resided at 326 Regent st. London 1864-72, where the Davenport brothers gave their first private séance in England 28 Sept. 1864 ; author with C. Reade of Foul play, 3 vols. 1868 ; resided chiefly in New York 1876 to death. d. from pneumonia, Fifty-fifth st. New York 18 Sept. 1890. bur. Woodlawn cemet., his copyrights were sold by Puttick and Simpson in London 17 Oct. 1889, London Assurance sold for £150, Arragh-na-Pogue £152, After dark £70, Formosa £64 and Flying scud £50. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list, 2 ed. (1880) 50-60 ; Stirling's Old Drury Lane ii 298-43 (1881); Archer's English. dramatists of to-day (1882) 38-48; Fitzgerald's Memoirs of an author ii 3-6 (1895); Whyte’s Actors of the century (1898) 153 prt. Cartoon portraits (1873) 10-11 prt.; G.M. July 1872 pp 62-4; Vanity Fair 16 Dec. 1882 Note.—His first wife was Anne Guiot a widow, dau. of Etienne St Pierre, they were married at parish church of St. Mary, Lambeth, London 9 July 1845 his name being then Bourcicault, she died before his insolvency 24 Oct. 1848 when he called himself Dion de Bourcicault. His second wife was Agnes Robertson the wellknown actress b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1833, seduced by him in London 1853, she was told by him in New York about Oct. 1853 that if she would consent to be his wife he would consent to be her husband and that by the law of New York that constituted a legal marriage, they lived together till 1876 when he went to New York, leaving her in England, she is said to have got an absolute divorce in New York with alimony of £600 a year 24 June 1881 but this may be very doubtful as she certainly got a decree nisi in the Probate and divorce court London 21 June 1888 by renson of the bigamy and adultery of her husband. His third wife was Louise Thorndike an actress, he married her at Sydney in 1885 and again at his residence in New York 7 March 1889. Certificate of registrar general for first marriage.

b.1819 foreign editor of The musical world upwards of 30 years; wrote libretti of Balfe’s Puritan’s daughter, produced at Covent Garden theatre 30 Nov. 1861 and Armourer of Nantes, produced at same house 12 Feb. 1863; author of A good run for it and 5 other farces: translated Wagner’s Oper und drama and Judaism in music, Pauli’s Konig Aelfred, Gauthier’s Voyage en Espagne, Blanc’s Vie des peintres, Freitag’s Soll and haben and Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit. d. 342 Strand, London 30 Sept. 1889. Brown and Stratton's British musical biog. (1897) 60.

b. 52 Doughty st. London 29 April 1816; articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of Oswestry, solicitor 1832–7; wrote parliamentary summary in Morning Chronicle 1848–52, special correspondent for it in Russia, Syria and Egypt 1853; contributed to Punch 1851 to death, editor June 1870 to death, wrote Punch’s Essence of parliament; edited Literary Gazette 1858–9 and Home [Page 420]420News 1867; author of The Creole or love’s fetters, produced at Lyceum theatre 8 April 1847; The daughter of the stars, produced at New Strand theatre 5 Aug. 1850; Aspen Court, a story of our own time 3 vols. 1854; The gordian knot 1859; The silver cord 3 vols. 1861. d. 6 Kent terrace, Regent’s park, London 23 Feb. 1874. G.M. xii, 561–9 (1874); Illust. review iii, 545–50 (1872), portrait; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 143–9 (1884); Cartoon portraits (1873) 128–33, portrait.

b. London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the Liverpool Lion comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with his brother William first of which The enchanted isle was produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the Atlas a short time and the Welcome Guest; author of Life of Sir John Falstaff 1858; Miss Brown, a romance and other tales 1860. d. Boundary st. Manchester 26 June 1860. Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala 1860 this work contains the story of Brough’s own life; E. Yates’s Recollections i, 312–18 (1884).

b. London 28 April 1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of papers called Hints upon heraldry in the Liverpool Lion; wrote with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many “Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry; wrote many burlesques including The field of the cloth of gold which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till 27 March 1869, 298 times. d. 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock hill 13 March 1870.

b. Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; made his début at [Page 427]427Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of Tom and Jerry July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden; manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct. 1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London 1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany. 1869; edited a comic paper in New York called The Lantern 1852; author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. d. 60 East Ninth st. New York 7 June 1880. Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter 1881, portrait; Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 178, 210, 384, 594, 655 (1867); The Oddfellow i, 65 (1839), portrait.

b. 11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short time; dramatic and musical critic of the Morning Star 1857–67; author of Memoir of Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland 1844 and other books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. d. Margate 15 July 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 48–9 iii, 1099.

b. Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in The fortunes of Nigel 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket [Page 466]466theatre summer seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150 comedies, dramas and farces best known being The wreck ashore, produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, The green bushes, produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and The flowers of the forest, produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by Our American cousin 1861–2; adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. d. Bell green lodge, Lower Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 411–6, portrait; The Theatre iii, 261–7 (1879); Illust. Review n.s. i, 161–3; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage; Cartoon portraits (1873) 116–7, portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list, 2 ed. (1880) 66–72; I.L.N. i, 384 (1842), portrait, lxxv, 457 (1879), portrait.

b. 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833; introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833; lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March 1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s Pendennis; (m. 1819 the succeeding). author of The stage both before and behind the curtain, 3 vols. 1840; A word with Punch 1847; Old England and New England, 2 vols. 1853; edited The Vauxhall papers 1841. d. of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860. J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i, (1872); Dents Old and New Birmingham (1880) 385–7, 432, portrait; I.L.N. iv, 220 (1844), portrait, xvi, 141 (1850), portrait.

b. London Sep. 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; acted in Norwich circuit 7 years; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre Feb. 1831 as Wormwood in The lottery ticket; acted at Haymarket 1833; first appeared in America at Arch st. theatre Philadelphia 3 Sep. 1834 as Doctor Ollapod in The Poor gentleman; lessee and manager of theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore; leased Palma’s Opera house New York 1848 which he renamed Burton’s Theatre; manager of Metropolitan theatre Broadway which he renamed Burton’s New theatre Sep. 1856–8; wrote several plays best known being Ellen Wareham, a domestic drama, produced May 1833 when it was played at 5 London theatres at same time; edited Cambridge Quarterly Review and Philadelphia Literary Souvenir 1838–40; author of Waggaries and vagaries 1848; Cyclopædia of wit and humour 2 vols. 1857. d. 174 Hudson st. New York 9 Feb. 1860. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage ii, 235–8 (1867); Burton’s Cyclopædia (1857), portrait; T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 57, 66, portrait.

b. Manchester 8 Jany 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s College Eaton sq. London; admitted student at M.T. 14 Jany 1858; edited Fun from first number 21 Sep. 1861; edited Comic News 13 July 1863 to May 1864; edited Mirth Nov. 1877 to Oct. 1878 12 numbers only; manager with Marie Wilton of Prince of Wales’s theatre London 15 April 1865 to 1867; manager of Alexandra theatre Liverpool 1867, of the T.R. and Amphitheatre Liverpool; manager of Criterion theatre London when it opened 21 May 1874; made his début in London at Globe theatre 23 Oct. 1869 as Sir Simon Simple in his own comedy Not such a fool as he looks; author of about 120 burlesques, farces and comedies produced at West-end theatres, Cyril’s success was played at Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868 to 27 March 1869 being longest run of any original 5 act play in modern times, and Our Boys a 3 act comedy was played at Vaudeville theatre from 16 Jany. 1875 to 18 April 1879 an unbroken run of 1362 times; author of Paid in full 3 [Page 508]508vols. 1865. d. Rockelemont, Queen’s road, Clapham, London 12 April 1884. Illustrated Review vi, 441–3 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 61–68; W. Archer’s English dramatists of to-day (1882) 119–47; London Society xxvi, 121–9 (1874); Biograph (1880) 360–8; Theatre i, 212 (1878), portrait, v, 345–50 (1882), iii, 268–72 (1884).

Second lieut. 21 foot 16 July 1807, first lieut. 1809–17 when placed on h.p.; made his début at T.R. Dublin 23 Oct. 1824 as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal; lessee of T.R. Dublin 21 Aug. 1830 to 1851; secretary to Charles Kean; translated Memoirs of H. M. de Latude 1834; author of The bride of Lammermoor, a drama in 5 acts 1823; A defence of the stage 1839; The life of Charles Kean 2 vols. 1859, and of articles on the drama in Dublin Univ. Mag. d. Winchfield, Hants. 12 Feb. 1870 aged 77. History of T.R. Dublin (1870) 59, 61, 65, 83–130.

b. 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, The Cerberus, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of The sons of Thespis, produced at Surrey theatre, Jenny Jones, Fleet Prison, Master Humphrey’s Clock, Black Sentinel, Rejected Addresses, The deserted village, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. d. 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. Theatrical Times ii, 177 (1847), portrait; Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2.

b. 29 August 1804; first appeared on the stage Dec. 1829 at Sadlers Wells theatre, London as Colonel Freelove ; played Sir Agrovaine of the rueful phiz in Blanchard's burlesque, The three perils of man at Surrey theatre 12 April 1852; author of following plays, Time tries all, produced Olympic theatre, London 4 Sept. 1848, The wicked wife produced Haymarket theatre, London 17 Feb. 1857, Aged forty, Double-faced people, Eustache Baudin, Old Joe and young Joe, The two polts, Vanity and The wicked wife. d. 17 Wellington st. Camberwell, London 17 Feb. 1865. Adams's A dict. of the drama 1904 i 345; certificate of registrar general.

b. about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the Bengal Tiger, Delicate Ground, A morning call, Who speaks first, and Naval Engagements are still sometimes played. d. Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, (1879), portrait.

Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F. Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death; wrote The evil May Day, The head of the family, Lives labyrinth and The rear admiral, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s plays. d. 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany. 1872 aged 71.

b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.

b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1816; violinist at local concerts; acted at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1849–53; appeared in London at Princess’s theatre as Victor in The Lancers 2 Nov. 1853, remained at Princess’s 6 years where he played in his own piece Music hath charms in June 1858; acted at Adelphi as Abbé Latour in The Dead Heart 1859; gave an entertainment Facts and Fancies at Hanover sq. rooms and St. James’ hall 1863; played at Princess’s 1863, at Haymarket 1865 and at Ampitheatre and Alexandra theatres, Liverpool 1866–68, at opening of Globe theatre, London 28 Nov. 1868 played Major Treherne in Byron’s Cyril’s Success; appeared at Drury Lane, Olympic, Globe, Opera Comique, Criterion, Mirror, Princess’s and Lyceum to 1884. d. St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 4 Oct. 1887. The Players ii, 73 (1860), portrait; [Page 1053]1053Saturday Programme 5 Feb. 1876, portrait; London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 14, col. 2, portrait.

b. Burwell, Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich; dramatist in London many years; author of Edda; The Pilot 1825; The Innkeeper of Abbeville 1826; The Floating Beacon 1826; The Inchcape Bell 1828; The Flying Dutchman 1829 and many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s early operas, libretto of Wallace’s Maritana, and many librettos for other Composers; wrote My Pretty Jane 1828 and many other songs. d. near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols. 1859, portrait; I.L.N. lxiii, 445 (1873), portrait.

Edited Weekly Despatch; acting editor of Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette to death. d. Alresford house, Stansfield road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Nov.

b. 1822; first appeared on the stage in London 10 Nov. 1856 as Captain Littlepop in Little Toddlekins at Drury lane theatre acted Martin Gurnock in The lighthouse at Olympic 11 Aug. 1857, Alfred Cleveland in Doubtful victory 19 April 1858, Karl in The red vial 13 Oct. 1858, Augustus Burr in The porter's knot 2 Dec. 1858, Marquis de St. Cast in Payable on demand 11 July 1859, Frederick Montgomery in Uncle Zachary 8 March 1860, John in The chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Captain Pertinax in Taming a truant 19 March 1863 all at Olympic ; acted Duc d’Aumont in Mademoiselle de Belle Isle at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1864, Doctor Vane in A wild goose chase 29 April 1867 and Sir Arthur Lovell in Spring gardens 2 Oct. 1875 both at Haymarket ; retired 1876 ; author of Dearest Mamma comedietta, produced Olympic theatre, London 14 May 1860, revived at Criterion 13 Oct. 1890, Duchess or nothing Olympic 9 July 1860, Home for a holiday 12 Nov. 1860, Old Trusty 25 Jan. 1861, My wife’s relations 1 Dec. 1862, all at Olympic, An odd lot, Royalty 28 March 1864, Through fire and water 3 act comedy drama, Adelphi 96 June 1865, Pay to the bearer a kiss, Haymarket 16 July 1868 and other plays; (m. 3 July 1877 Emilia Julia Aylmer only dau. of James Henry Blake, Q.C., of St. Stephen’s green, Dublin, they edited The Play, a penny weekly journal 20 Oct. 1881 to 20 Jan. 1884, she was well known as a poet, novelist and dramatist, and d. 20 Aug. 1905). d. 37 Victoria road, Kensington, London 20 Jan. 1892, bur. Brookwood cemet. The little journal1884, i 311-3; The Era 23 Jan. 1892 p. 10.

b. Kingston, Jamaica 14 March 1808; came to England 1814; M.D. of Edin. univ. 1829, M.R.C.S. Edin. 1829; physician in London 1830–42; edited Liverpool Medical Journal 1834; at Malvern as a practiser of hydropathy 1842 to 31 Dec. 1871; became very intimate with Mrs. C. D. T. Bravo and was one of the witnesses in the Bravo poison case July-Aug. 1876; his name removed from medical societies and Medical Register 1876; author of The water cure in chronic disease 1846, 13 ed. 1877; The lady of Belleisle, a drama produced at Drury lane 4 Dec. 1839; appears as Dr. Gullson in Chas. Reade’s novel It is never too late to mend 1857. d. Orwell lodge, Bedford hill road, Balham, Surrey 27 March 1883. Palatine Note-book, iii, 215–6 (1883); The Balham Mystery (1876), 33 portrait.

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b. The Grange, Marnock, Banffshire early in 1830; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen; went to London 1849; discarded name of Duff; contributed to Morning Chronicle, People’s Journal, &c.; wrote the article ‘Beggars’ in H. Mayhew’s London Labour 1851; a founder of the Savage club 1857, pres. 1857 to death; wrote a series of essays in All the year round 1861, &c., since collected into volumes called Everyday papers 2 vols. 1864, Sunnyside papers 1866 and Town and country sketches 1866; wrote with Frederick Lawrence burlesque of Kenilworth produced at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1858, it ran for more than 100 nights; with Wm. Brough the Area Belle 1864 and other farces for Adelphi; wrote The Great city produced at Drury Lane 22 April [Page 1295]12951867 which ran 102 nights; For love or money with which Vaudeville theatre opened 16 April 1870; Little Emly produced at Olympic theatre 9 Oct. 1869 which ran 200 nights; Amy Robsart produced at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1870. d. 74 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 10 April 1877. Cartoon Portraits (1873) 88–9, portrait; Illust. Review, i, 81–2 (1874), portrait.

b. Portici, Naples 12 June 1825; light comedian at Bower saloon, Stangate, London; played at Princess’s theatre 1843, managed the Princess’s 24 Sep. 1859 to 16 Oct. 1862; stage manager of Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden 1846 to death; stage director of royal opera, St. Petersburgh, held same post at Madrid, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona; lessee of Covent Garden during pantomime seasons of 1869–73. (m. 17 Feb. 1846 Maria Ann Bone, columbine at Princess’s theatre); wrote The Avalanche, a drama 1854; The little treasure, a comedy 1855 and 11 other pieces; with E. Falconer The Rose of Castile, an opera 1857; Satanella, an opera 1858. d. 2 Bedford place, Holborn, London 19 April 1873. The Mask (1868) 97, portrait; Entertainment Gazette 15 Jany. 1887 p. 8; Era 27 April 1873 p. 4.

b. 1823; low comedian on Lincoln, York and Western circuits; played at Surrey theatre 1851; at City of London theatre 10 years; wrote for the weekly penny publications; wrote a great number of dramas, farces and burlesques chiefly for the Britannia and Pavilion theatres for which he was paid at the rate of about 50s. an act; thirty of his pieces printed in Lacy’s Acting edition 1853–9. d. 44 Huntingdon st. Haggerston, London 31 May 1875. Era Almanack 1869 pp. 18, 45.

b. Labby vale, Londonderry, Ireland 1 Dec. 1830; studied in Philadelphia, U.S. America under Peter Richings; first appeared at Walnut st. theatre as Bianca in Fazio 17 Feb. 1851; played at St. Louis 1852, in San Francisco 1853, in New York 1854 and 1857 when she acted as Camille her most successful character. (m. 24 Dec. 1857 Robert Stoepel, musical director, from whom she separated 1862, sued for a divorce March 1869); appeared at Lyceum, London as Rosalie Lee in New Year’s Eve 1 April 1861 but met with little success; returned to U.S. America, made last appearance as Medea in April 1876; teacher of elocution New York 1876 to death; published Camille. Adapted from the French of A. Dumas [by M. H.] 1856; Medea, a tragedy by G. J. B. E. W. Legouvé, translated 1857. d. New York city 7 March 1877. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 184 (1887), portrait; Soulé’s Annals of San Francisco (1855) 661, portrait.

Member of Adelphi theatre company, London about 1843; one of the best light comedians; stage manager of Princess's theatre 1859-62 and at Astley’s amphitheatre 1864-5 ; author of Wilful murder, farce, produced at Princess's theatre July 1847, The black dwarf, melodrama, Laid up in port or sharks alongshore 3 act drama, The Cuckoo and other plays. d. Balham grove, Balham, London 24 March 1893 aged 85. The Era 1 April 1893 p. 8.

b. the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason 1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850; A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. d. 43 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 226–29 (1854); G.M. iii 687 (1857).

b. July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in King John at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage Grace Huntley, Adelphi 1833, Wapping Old Stairs, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, Louise or the White Scarf, Victoria 1838, The Forest keeper, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and Caught in a trap, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of [Page 1507]1507The King’s mail 3 vols. 1863; The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols. 1863; More secrets than one 3 vols. 1864. d. 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. Theatrical Times, iii, 17, 50 (1848), portrait; N. & Q. 6 S. x 487 (1884).

Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.

b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.

b. Greek st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1803; ed. at Sheerness; served on board H.M.S. Namur guardship 1813–15; apprenticed to Gabriel Sidney of Northumberland st. Strand, printer 1816; produced More frightened than hurt, at Sadler’s Wells theatre 30 April 1821; wrote pieces for the Coburg theatre 1825; wrote Black-eyed Susan or all in the Downs, best nautical drama ever written, produced at Surrey theatre 8 June 1829 for which he received £70 from Elliston, it ran 300 nights; wrote The mutiny at the Nore, played at Pavilion, Coburg and Queen’s theatres 1830; joint manager with W. J. Hammond of Strand theatre 1 May 1836 to 17 Sep. 1836; wrote the Bubbles of the day, Covent Garden 25 Feb. 1842; The prisoner of war, Drury Lane 8 Feb. 1842; started the Illuminated Mag. 1843; wrote Time works wonders, which ran at the Haymarket from 26 April 1845 for about 90 nights; edited Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 7 vols. 1845–8; editor and chief proprietor of Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly newspaper 1846, it became the Weekly News; contributed to Punch from No. 2, 24 July 1841 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1852 to death; founded The Mulberries 1824, The Whittington at 37 Arundel st. Strand 1846, it ceased 1873, The Museum 1847 and other literary clubs; author of Men of character 3 vols. 1838; Punch’s Letters to his son 1843; The story of a feather 1844; Punch’s Complete letter writer 1845; Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lectures 1846; The chronicles of Clovernook 1845; A man made of money 1849; Heads of the people 1852; The writings of D. Jerrold 8 vols. 1854 and 4 vols. 1863–4. d. Kilburn priory, St. John’s Wood, London 8 June 1857. bur. Norwood cemetery 15 June, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery. [Page 89][89]W. B. Jerrold’s Life of D. Jerrold (1859), portrait; G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 4–58, 108–20, 126–39; Illust. Rev. iii 673–81 (1872), portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i 291–304 (1844); Quarterly Mag. of Oddfellows, i 198–208 (1858); E. Yates’ Recollections, i 291–4, ii 351 (1884).

b. London 23 Dec. 1826; ed. at Brompton gr. sch. and at Boulogne; wrote in Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper 1846; wrote papers on The literature of the poor, in Daily News 1846; described the Paris exhibition of 1855 for Daily News, Illustrated London News and Athenæum; spent half of each year in Paris 1855 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly London News 8 June 1857 to death; wrote Cool as a cucumber, farce produced at Lyceum theatre 24 March 1851, Beau Brummell the king of Calais, Lyceum 11 April 1859, Chatterbox drama, St. James’s 30 Nov. 1859 and Cupid in waiting, comedy, Royalty 17 July 1871; founded English branch of the International literary association; edited under name of Fin-Bec, Knife and Fork 8 numbers 1871 and new series 7 numbers 1872; author of Two lives, a novel 2 vols. 1862; A book for the beach 2 vols. 1863; At home in Paris 1864, several editions; The children of Lutetia 2 vols. 1864; London a pilgrimage, illustrated by Gustave Doré 1872; The life of Napoleon III. 4 vols. 1874–82; The life of G. Cruikshank 2 vols. 1882. d. 27 Victoria st. Westminster 10 March 1884. bur. Norwood cemetery 13 March. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 394–418; J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 196 portrait; Illustrated Review, v 267–73 (1873), portrait; Graphic, xxix 368 (1884), portrait.

b. Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan, June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany. 1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley 28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value 2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall, London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June 1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III. and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes 1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860; directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. d. Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. bur. Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. J. W. Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols. (1860), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1 series (1859), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 153–63 (1881); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 168–215 (1888); I.L.N. 1 Feb. 1868 p. 117, portrait.

b. Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C. coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792; appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May 1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age, for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage 10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840; gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (m. 2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was b. Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, d. Chertsey 3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837; his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes,[Page 187][187] a farce 1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble 1883. d. Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, iii 1–14 (1825), portrait; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 27–30; Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxvi 623–30 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp. 607–617; P. Fitzgerald’s The Kembles, i 225, 310, ii 386–9 (1871); I.L.N. i 364 (1842), portrait, xxv 514–6 (1854).

b. London; solicitor; wrote the following plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders; The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A. Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. d. New York 24 July 1876.

b. Anne st. Cork 12 May 1784; removed with his parents to London 1793; wrote the Welsh Harper, one of the popular ballads of the day 1798; ensign in 2nd regiment of Tower Hamlets militia 25 Jany. 1805 to 25 July 1806; M.D. Aberdeen 1806; vaccinator of Jennerian Soc. Salisbury sq. London 1806; first appeared on the stage at Crow st. theatre, Dublin 1808; acted in Cherry’s company at Waterford and Swansea 1809–11; taught elocution at Mrs. Chapman’s school, Belfast 1813–5; kept a school at Glasgow 1817–29; partner with Mr. Northhouse in the Free Press newspaper, Glasgow 1821–4; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 5 April 1832 as Master Walter in The Hunchback, made his début in U.S. of A. 29 Sep. 1834 in the same part; lectured at various places on rhetoric, &c.; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; converted and became a Baptist preacher June 1853, drew large audiences to Exeter Hall; his best known plays were Cains Gracchus produced at Belfast 13 Feb. 1815, Virginius at Glasgow 1819 and at Covent Garden 17 May 1820, The Hunchback at Covent Garden 5 April 1832, The Wife at Covent Garden 24 April 1833 in which he played Julian St. Pierre, The Love Chase at Haymarket 10 Oct. 1837, Woman’s Wit or love’s disguises at Covent [Page 260][260]Garden 23 May 1838; author of The Magdalen and other tales 1832; The life of Edmund Kean, Esq. tragedian 1833; George Lovell, a novel 3 vols. 1846; Fortescue, a novel 3 vols. 1847; The Rock of Rome or the arch-heresy 1849; The Idol demolished by its own priest 1851; The Gospel attributed to Matthew is the record of the whole original apostlehood 1855. d. Higher terrace, Torquay 30 Nov. 1862. bur. necropolis, Glasgow 5 Dec. Life of J. S. Knowles. By R. B. Knowles (1872), portrait; Genealogical table of the families of ... Knowles. By F. Harvey (1875); W. Marston’s Our Recent Actors, ii 122–38 (1888); Traits of Character. By A Contemporary, ii 131–58 (1860); James Grant’s Portraits of public characters, ii 251–61 (1841); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 141–7; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 397–402, portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 85–90 (1844); G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 170–5; Cumberland’s British Theatre, vol. xlii, portrait; Men of the time (1857) 428–31.

b. Bilbao, Spain 19 July 1795; made his début as a violinist at Bilbao 1801; ed. at Bordeaux 1802 and at Paris 1803; arrived in England Oct. 1805 and as a violinist was known as the Young Spaniard until May 1807; played light comedy parts in Edinburgh, Dublin and Glasgow about 1808–18; first violin and director of the Liverpool concerts 1818–20 and 1823–4; directed the ballets and composed music for Italian opera London 1820–3 and 1824 etc.; made the first English adaptations of the operas Semiramide 1829, William Tell 1830, Fra Diavolo 1831 and others; visited America, New Zealand and Australia; author of Love and reason; Doing for the best, and other dramas. d. Pentonville, London 20 Sep. 1867. Grove’s Dict. of music, ii 82–3 (1880).

Note.—In his sacred melodramatic opera The Israelites in Egypt produced at Covent Garden theatre 22 Feb. 1833 he combined the choruses of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the solos from Rossini’s Moise, and illustrated the melange in action with a mise en scene; this was the first and last attempt of the kind and was suppressed by the intervention of the Bishop of London.

b. 1809; appeared at Olympic theatre, London as Lenoir in The Foundling of the Forest 7 April 1828; acted in the provinces; stage manager at Windsor theatre; manager of theatre royal Sheffield 1841; acted at Covent Garden 1842, at the Pavilion, Victoria and Sadler’s Wells 1844; played at Manchester 1844–5; active promoter of General theatrical fund instituted 16 Feb. 1839; theatrical publisher at 17 Wellington st. Strand, London 1849, removed to 89 Strand 1857, retired from business 1872; published Lacy’s Acting edition of plays, 99 volumes containing 1485 pieces 1848–73; author of 3 dramas, The Pickwickians 1837, The tower of London 1840 and The school for daughters 1843; (His wife was Frances Lacy 1819–72). d. Benhill st. Sutton, Surrey 1 Aug. 1873. I.L.N. lxii 279 (1873); Era 10 Aug. 1873 p. 11, 30 Nov. 1873 p. 7.

b. Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his [Page 387][387]death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (m. 28 Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and d. Nov. 1890). He d. Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. bur. Ifield 27 May. Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp. 481–88, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 49–60; Appleton’s Journal, viii 493–5, portrait; E. Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait; J. Hatton’s With a show in the north. Reminiscences of Mark Lemon (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868) 65–7, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.

Note.—Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career” [1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.

b. London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. m. 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting [Page 409][409]1875. d. The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. T. Ribot’s English Psychology (1873) 255–314; H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 268–87; Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp. 15–24; Graphic, xviii 624 (1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiii 565 (1878), portrait.

b. London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4 Skinner’s place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with Alfred Thompson,

The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb. to Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif Polonais by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre 25 Nov. 1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were The Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a bad name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s Wells 8 Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols. 1880. d. Royal free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb. 1890. bur. Kensal Green cemet. The Mask (1868) p. iii, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 1 March 1890 p. 8, and 8 March p. 18, portrait.

b. Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; [Page 441][441]wrote the songs and music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. d. Alfred cottage, Victoria road, Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865.

b. 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. I.L.N. lxii 533 (1878), portrait.

b. London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (m. 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, i 250–5 (1855).

b. Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. [Page 507][507]Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. (1874), portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed. 1851 pp. 196–9; The Critic, xix 229 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. iv 208 (1844), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii 196, portrait.

b. London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. d. Whitby, Sep. 1880.

b. 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. d. Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

b. Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793; ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7 June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal [Page 680][680]academy, London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden 1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832; assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June 1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839; produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb. 1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841, played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844 to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place; made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851 as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park, London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60 and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849; with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June 1837; m. (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress b. 11 Nov. 1806, d. Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; m. (2) 3 April 1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). d. 6 Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. bur. Kensal green 4 May. Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences 2 vols. (1875), 4 portraits; Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him (1884); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 25–109 (1888); G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden (1839); T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors (1847) 1–36; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 36–9; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters, ii 215–36 (1841); R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 104–28 (1844); Metropolitan Mag. xvii 81–5 (1836); Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1851) 148, 229–34, 3 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book parts 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21, 8 portraits.

b. 1789; managed the Colosseum in Regent’s park, London 1840; lessee of Princess’s theatre, Oxford st. 26 Dec. 1842 to Easter 1850; produced Scribe’s Don Cæsar de Bazan, Oct. 1844; Charlotte Cushman first appeared in England at Princess’s as Bianca in Fazio 14 Feb. 1845; produced many operas by Balfe and Linley, and Loder’s Night Dancers, Oct. 1846; wrote A curious case, a drama Princess’s 1846; The first night, a drama Princess’s 1 Oct. 1849; Infanticide or the Bohemian mother, a melo-drama Royal Coburg theatre; A.S.S. a farce, Lyceum 23 April 1853; A fast train, Lyceum 25 April 1853; Chesterfield Thinskin, a farce, Princess’s 1853; Frederick the Great; Death of Mary queen of Scots; and Is it a lie. d. 7 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London 5 March 1861. H. B. Baker’s London Stage, ii 161–71 (1889); Era Almanac (1876) 1–2.

b. 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats, drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb, pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec. 1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18 Sep. 1874. d. London 17 Dec. 1878. bur. Brompton cemetery 24 Dec.

b. Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1840; ed. at Harrow; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 14 June 1859; clerk in the audit office Somerset House 1862–8; dramatic critic to the London Figaro some years from 1870; author of the following plays, Mad as a hatter, farce produced at Royalty theatre 7 Dec. 1863; Corrupt practices, drama Lyceum 22 Jany. 1870; Q.E.D. or all a mistake, comedietta Court 25 Jany. 1871; False Shame, comedy Globe 4 Nov. 1872, revived at Royalty 19 June 1880; Brighton, comedy Court 25 May 1874, which ran 300 nights; Biorn, 5 act opera Queen’s 17 Jany. 1877; Family Honour, comedy Aquarium 18 May 1878; Lola or the Belle of Baccarato, comic opera Olympic 15 Jany. 1881; author with W. S. Wills of Cora, a drama Globe 28 Feb. 1877; edited the Henry Irving edition of Shakespeare’s works 8 vols. 1887–90; author of A study of Hamlet 1875; Henry Irving actor and manager. By An Irvingite 1883; L.S.D. an unfinished novel brought out in Britannia Magazine; m. (1) Imogene, she appeared as Elfrida in his five act opera of Biorn at Queen’s theatre 17 Jany. 1877, she d. 19 Feb. 1885; m. (2) 2 May 1885 Ada Cavendish the actress. d. 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 28 Dec. 1889. London Figaro 4 Jany. 1890 p. 12, portrait; I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p. 70, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 18 Jany. 1890 p. 556, portrait.

b. Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John [Page 764][764]Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. d. at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 159–86 (1844); T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain (1851) 201–206; I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p. 111, portrait; London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p. 6, portrait.

b. Basnett st. Liverpool 26 Dec. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin architect 1819–23; travelled in Italy 1823–24 and 1827–28; district surveyor of Bow, London 1833–35; opened the Adelphi theatre with F. H. Yates 28 Sep. 1835, retired Oct. 1835; made his first appearance on the stage as George Rattleton in The humpbacked lover, at Olympic theatre 6 Nov. 1835; played in New York and Philadelphia 1838; opened Covent Garden with Love’s labour lost 30 Sep. 1839; produced Boucicault’s London Assurance 4 March 1841, retired 30 April 1842; bankrupt June 1840 and Dec. 1843; lessee of Lyceum theatre 18 Oct. 1847 to 24 March 1855; acted at Drury Lane 1855–57; imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for debt 4 July to 1 Aug. 1856; acted in the United States 1857–58, at Drury Lane 1860–61; gave an entertainment called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews at home’ at the concert room in Her Majesty’s theatre 25 Nov. 1861 to 1862; first appeared in Paris at Théâtre de Variétés in Un Anglais timide, a French version of Cool as a cucumber 7 Sep. 1863; acted again at Haymarket 23 Nov. 1863, at St. James’s 1864, at Vaudeville, Paris 1865; played in Cool as a cucumber at Olympic in English, and at St. James’s in French on same night 30 July 1867; played in Australia 1870, New Zealand 1871 and United States 1871–2; played at Gaiety theatre, London 1872–6; played in the provinces same years; went to India, Nov. 1875; acted at Opera Comique, London 1877; made last appearance on the stage at Staleybridge as Adonis Evergreen in My awful dad 8 June 1878; created the chief parts in 161 plays; wrote or adapted from the French 43 pieces, most successful being My wife’s mother, produced at Haymarket[Page 793][793] 1833, Truth or a glass too much, Adelphi 10 March 1834, Bachelor of Arts, Court Jester, and Patter versus Clatter. d. Queen’s hotel, Manchester 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 29 June. The life of C. J. Mathews, edited by Charles Dickens 2 vols. (1879), portraits; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage (1867), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. vi 351–53, portrait; Actors by daylight, i 57 (1838), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) p. 57, portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, ii 159–70 (1888); Theatrical times, i 105 (1847), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 123–27 (1881); C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 405–10; J. Hollingshead’s Plain English (1880) 111–16; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii 423–47 (1855), iii 343–73 (1855); T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1847) 187–98, portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas, i 205 (1879), portrait; London Sketch book 18 Sep. 1874 pp. 3–7, portrait.

b. 1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited 1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861; Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce, Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand 1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871; resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. d. Richmond infirmary 25 Dec. 1875. bur. Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 62–5.

b. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed. 1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical or London directories after 1855. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 58–61.

b. London 25 Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father; published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London, weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However, a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it; author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin [Page 816][816]Luther 1865 and many other books; author with John Binny and others of London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury, London 25 July 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Fox Bourne’s English newspapers, ii 117–20, 155, 238; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster School (1884) 329–30; The Mask (1868) 65, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.

Note.—There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s 2-page cartoon called Mr. Punch’s fancy ball 9 Jany. 1847 as the cornet player in the orchestra. On 19 March 1856 he held a meeting of ticket of leave men at National hall, Holborn, the speeches of five of them were fully reported in the newspapers.

b. Kief, Russia 1848 ; acted in the provinces from 1861 ; clerk in an office in city of London 1868; acting manager of Grecian theatre, London several years ; partner with George Conquest at Surrey theatre, London ; author of following dramas produced at Grecian theatre, London Sid 12 June 1871, Not in vain 5 Oct 1871, Glin Glan 1 April 1872, Word of honour 22 Oct 1874 also of Thad or linked by love comedy July 1872, Chopsticks and spikins farce 25 Sept 1873 both produced at Grecian theatre; author with George Conquest of 4 dramas produced at Grecian theatre, namely Velvet and rags 6 April 1874, Hand and glove, 22 May 1874, Seven sins 27 Aug 1874 and The blind sister 26 Oct, 1874; also of For ever 2 act drama produced at Surrey theatre 2 Oct 1882 and revived at Sadlers Wells 1 Aug. 1892; author with Henry Spry of Snae fell drama produced at Gaiety theatre 30 June 1873; auther of Stolen kisses drama produced at Amphitheatre, Liverpool 6 Nov 1876 and at Globe, London 2 July 1877 and of many other dramas ; his drama New Babylon produced at Duke’s theatre, London 13 Feb. 1879 had a record run of 12 years and 4 months, its last night being 13 June 1891 at Gaiety theatre, Brighton ; author with W. H. Poole of New Babylon : or, daughters of Eve 3 vols. 1882. d. The Hollies Edward sq. Kensington, London 7 July 1895. Wm. Archer's English dramatists of to-day1289 pp. 226-32; The little journal 1884, i 123 ; Graphic 13 July 1895 p. 38 prt.; Era 13 July 1895 p. 9.

b. 9 Queen’s sq. Westminster 8 Sep. 1782; taken to Paris 1790; matric. at the Ecole de Médecine and obtained a medical degree; assistant surgeon 97 foot 26 Jany. 1802; served in Egypt; surgeon 31 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 26 May 1814; served in all the Peninsular campaigns under Wellington and Hill; principal surgeon of cavalry at Waterloo and surrender of Paris; lived at Boulogne some time; connected with military lunatic asylum at Chatham; resident physician to Middlesex pauper lunatic asylum at Hanwell 1837–9; kept a private lunatic asylum in Kensington; wrote libretto of Horn’s musical farce The Bee-Hive, produced at Lyceum theatre 19 Jany. 1811; wrote 5 dramatic pieces, Ladies at home, Haymarket 7 Aug. 1819; The illustrious stranger or married and buried, Drury lane 4 Oct. 1827; Who’ll lend me a wife, Victoria theatre 22 July 1834; The miser’s daughter, Drury lane 24 Feb. 1835; Borrowed feathers, Queen’s theatre 27 Feb. 1836; author of Sketches of ancient and modern Boulogne 1826; Adventures of an Irish gentleman 1830; Curiosities of medical experience 2 vols. 1837; Stories of Torres Vedras 3 vols. 1839; Aphorisms on the treatment and management of the insane 1840; The history of duelling 2 vols. 1841; Jack Hornet or the march of intellect 1845; Mind and matter illustrated by considerations on hereditary insanity 1847. d. London 1862. J. G. Millingen’s Recollections of republican France from 1790 to 1801, vol. 1 (1848), portrait.

b. Brook st. St. James’s, London 10 Feb. 1791; ed. at Greenwich, Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxford, fellow 1814, Newdigate prizeman 1812; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D. 1849; wrote hymns for Reginald Heber’s Hymnal 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Reading 1818–35; professor of poetry at Oxford 1821–31; published a drama entitled Fazio 1815, 2 ed. 1816, which was produced without his knowledge as The Italian wife at Surrey theatre, produced as Fazio at Covent Garden 5 Feb. 1818, Ristori had it translated into Italian for her 1856; Bampton lecturer 1827; canon of Westminster 6 April 1835 to Nov. 1849; R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 1835–49; dean of St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Nov. 1849 to death, inaugurated evening services under the dome 28 Nov. 1858; author of Samor, lord of the bright city 1818, 2 ed. 1818; The fall of Jerusalem 1820, 5 ed. 1853; The martyr of Antioch 1822; Belshazzar 1822; Anne Boleyn 1826; The poetical works of H. H. Milman 3 vols. 1839; The history of Christianity from the [Page 894][894]birth of Christ to the abolition of paganism in the Roman empire 3 vols. 1840; History of Later Christianity, including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas the fifth 6 vols. 1854–5, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1867; A memoir of lord Macaulay 1862; The history of the Jews 3 vols. 1829, 7 ed. 1887; Annals of St. Paul’s cathedral 1868 and 20 other books; edited The works of Q. Horatius Flaccus 1849. d. Sunninghill, Berkshire 24 Sep. 1868. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Oct., monument erected by public subscription in south aisle of the choir. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, ii 268–73 (1875); Illustrated Review, iv 225–32; Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians (1876) 593–5; The living poets of England (Paris 1827) 406–28; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 51; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 188–94; G.M. i 859 (1868), ii 582 (1884); I.L.N. xv 336 (1849) portrait, xxiv 400 (1854) portrait, liii 331, 340 (1868) portrait; Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 736.

d. 11 Dec. 1842). b. Alresford, Hampshire 16 Dec. 1787; drew a prize in a lottery worth £20,000, 1797; ed. at Mrs. St. Quintin’s school 22 Hans place, London 1798 to 1802; one of 114 persons who competed for the poetical address to be spoken at opening of Drury Lane theatre 10 Oct. 1812; lived at Three Mile Cross near Reading 1820 to 1851, and at Swallowfield near Reading 1851 to death; granted civil [Page 910][910]list pension of £100, 1837; edited Finden’s Tableaux, an annual 1838–41; author of 4 tragedies, Julian produced at Covent Garden 15 March 1823; Foscari at C.G. 4 Nov. 1826; Rienzi at Drury Lane 9 Oct. 1828; Charles I. at Victoria theatre 9 July 1834; she also wrote Mary Queen of Scots, a scena in verse 1831, and an opera libretto Sadak and Kalasrade produced 1835, her plays were published in 2 vols. 1854; author of Miscellaneous poems 1810, 2 ed. 1811; Blanch of Castile 1812; Our village, sketches of rural character and scenery 5 vols. 1824–32, 5 ed. 1856, reprinted from The Lady’s magazine 1819 &c., which made her famous, children were named after her village urchins; Dramatic scenes, sonnets and other poems 1827; Belford Regis or sketches of a country town 3 vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1849; Recollections of a literary life 3 vols. 1852, 4 ed. 1859; Atherton and other tales 3 vols. 1854. d. Swallowfield 10 Jany. 1855. Life of M. R. Mitford, edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange 3 vols. (1870); Friendships of M. R. Mitford, edited by rev. A. G. L’Estrange (1882); M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859), portrait; James Payn’s Literary recollections (1885) 74–97; H. F. Chorley’s The authors of England (1861) 63–66, portrait; Yesterdays with authors. By James T. Fields (Boston 1873) 261–352; A book of memories. By S. C. Hall (1877) 438–49; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 353–59; S. T. Hall’s Biographical sketches (1873) 96–108; Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 355, 379, portrait; I.L.N. xxiv 369, 370 (1854) portrait, xxvi 60 (1855).

b. London 24 Aug. 1794; clerk in a solicitor’s office about 1804; a writer of songs; manager of the Regency theatre, Westminster; wrote theatrical criticisms for the Satirist and the Scourge; a working law stationer; wrote for the Olympic theatre, All at Coventry, musical farce 20 Oct. 1815, The diamond arrow, comedy 18 Dec. 1815, Giovanni in London, extravaganza 26 Dec. 1817, and Rochester musical comedy 16 Nov. 1818; manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, where his equestrian [Page 922][922]drama. The dandy family ran nearly 100 nights; managed Coburg theatre, where his drama the Lear of private life ran 53 nights; managed Drury Lane theatre 1820, produced The spectre bridegroom 2 July 1821, The cataract of the Ganges 27 Oct. 1823, and Zoroaster 19 April 1824; dramatised Pierce Egan’s Life in London under the title of Tom and Jerry or life in London, and produced it at Adelphi theatre 26 Nov. 1821, it ran nearly two seasons; wrote The bashful man 1826 and many other entertainments for Charles Mathews the elder; manager of Vauxhall gardens 1827; opened with John Barnett a music shop in Regent st. 1828; produced at Surrey theatre, Old heads and young shoulders 8 Jany. 1828, Tobit’s Dog 30 April 1838; at Haymarket theatre, The peer and the peasant 11 Sep. 1832; lessee of City theatre, Milton st. 1833–5; produced at Strand theatre, Sam Weller or the Pickwickians 10 July 1837, and at Sadler’s Wells, Giselle or the phantom night dancers 23 Aug. 1841; became totally blind 1843; a brother of the Charterhouse 1844 to death; wrote his theatrical reminiscences in Sunday Times under title of Dramatic Feuilletons 1851; his dramatic pieces number upwards of 170; edited Richardson’s New minor drama 4 vols. 1828–30; author of A new guide to the spa of Leamington Priors 1822, 3 ed. 1824; Poems 1829; Selections from dramatic works 3 vols. 1850. d. the Charterhouse, London 3 Dec. 1857. Reynolds’s Miscellany, ix 28–9 (1853), portrait; Era 13 Dec. 1857 p. 11.

Studied under W. M. Rooke and W. Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862; contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again, ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist 1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song 1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852, twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers; Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler 1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. d. Waterloo road, London 12 Sep. 1886. bur. Norwood cemet.

b. Pangbourne near Reading 3 Jany. 1811; educ. Paris and [Page 995][995]Germany 1817–20 and at Charles Richardson’s school, Clapham common 1820–7; a clerk in Chelsea hospital 1832–40; his first farce called My first fit of the gout produced at Queen’s theatre April 1835; wrote nearly 100 pieces, chiefly one-act farces, for the west end theatres, among them were Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw; To Paris and back for five pounds; Lend me five shillings; The Irish tiger; My precious Betsy; Whitebait at Greenwich, and Betsy Baker; his one-act farce Box and Cox, the most popular play ever written, was produced at Lyceum 1 Nov. 1847; gave public readings 1867; a brother of the Charterhouse 15 Aug. 1881 to death; given a benefit at Gaiety theatre 22 July 1880 and another at Haymarket 16 Oct. 1889; produced Going it at Toole’s theatre 7 Dec. 1885. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Dec. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 23 Dec. J. M. Morton’s Plays for home performance (1889) memoir pp. ix–xv; Theatre xiv 220–1, 255 (1889) portrait; London Figaro 23 Dec. 1891 p. 7 portrait; Black and White 2 Jany. 1892 p. 4 portrait; London Society xlix 66, 105, 241, 392 (1886) portrait.

b. 1803; dramatist; wrote The angel of the attic, a drama Princess’s theatre, London 27 May 1843; Judith of Geneva, a drama Adelphi 1844; Another glass, a drama Lyceum 21 April 1845; Seeing Wright, a farce Adelphi 1845; The dance of the shirt or the semptress’s ball, a drama Adelphi 30 Oct. 1848; Sink or swim, a comedy Olympic 2 Aug. 1852; Go to bed Tom, a farce Olympic 25 Nov. 1852; A pretty piece of business, a comedy Haymarket 20 Nov. 1853; The Great Russian bear or another retreat from Moscow, a comedietta Strand 3 Oct. 1859; He also wrote The white feather and The light troop of St. James’s, and with his younger brother [Page 996][996]John Maddison Morton All that glitters is not gold, a drama Olympic 13 Jany. 1851, and The writing on the wall, a melodrama Haymarket 9 Aug. 1852. d. 8 St. John’s sq. Notting hill, London about 26 Jany. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemet.

b. London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life; first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany. 1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859; Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo in Falconer’s [Page 1045][1045]Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb. 1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr. Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s; played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande 15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4 March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872; treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General theatrical fund 1880–2. d. 8 Aug. 1889. bur. Nunhead cemet. 12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p. 8, 17 Aug. p. 8.

b. Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared [Page 1056][1056]at T.R. Edinburgh as Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819, which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee 1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July 1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter, a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15 July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany. 1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. d. St. Andrews 5 May 1852. bur. in the cathedral burying ground, portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 170–2 portrait; The Town ii 766, 778 (1839); J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 portrait; The Farewell addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch (1851).

b. Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney; apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32; acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833; played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20 March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39 original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre [Page 12951][1295]Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec. 1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama, Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster; m. (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was b. Portsmouth 28 April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres and in the provinces. d. on 28 February 1852. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 5 March. Dramatic and musical review 1842 p. 102 et seq.; Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp. 49–50 portrait, and iv 25–6 (1849) portrait of his second wife; Actors by gaslight (1838) 129–30 portrait; I.L.N. xx 194 (1852).

b. Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself [Page 1296][1296]German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. d. 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 465 (1891) portrait; Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp. 270–2; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi 553 (1877) portrait; Graphic xv 236 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 229 (1877) portrait; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 78 portrait; The theatre i 55–57 and 68 (1877); You have heard of them by Q (1854) 121–27; E. Yates’s Recollections i 307–10 (1884); Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p. 5 portrait; Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p. 340 portrait; The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p. 55 portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait.

b. 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight, a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama, Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. d. Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862. The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p. 11.

b. 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen; attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9; acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market, Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860, Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut. Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865; wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept. 1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April 1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New York 1873 to death. d. New York 17 Feb. 1885. bur. Evergreen cemetery. Entr’acte Annual(1882) 58 _portrait_; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard (1891) 105, 720.

b. New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June 1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826 to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas, Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home, sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world, more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. d. Tunis 10 April 1852, memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. C. H. Brairard’s John Howard Payne (1885); Memoirs of J. H. Payne, the American Roscius (1815) portrait; Appleton’s American biog. iv 68 (1888) portrait; The Theatre vi 211–6 (1885).

Leading actor and stage manager at Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel, London ; managed Adelphi theatre, Norwich 1847; managed with Clarence Holt theatres royal Norwich, Yarmouth, Ipswich, Bury and Colchester; edited Norwich Argus Jan. 1863 to death ; author of some dramas including Ambition produced at Surrey theatre, London 28 Sept. 1857; (m 20 May 1843 Ellen Daly who took leading role in many popular dramas, notably Victorine or I'll sleep on it and her husband’s plays Catherine: or the throne, the scaffold and the tomb and Bird in the hand worth two in the bush produced at Surrey theatre 19 Jan, 1857, she d. Norwich 14 June 1890 aged 77), d. 7 Dec. 1879. Norwich Argus 13 Dec. 1879 p. 4,

b. Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London 1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi 1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860, revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five, Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June 1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb. 1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora, actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain, Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867; Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23 Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. [Page 1513][1513]1868; Not guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869; On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19 Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save her, 3 vols. 1874. d. 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton, London 3 Dec. 1874. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. Watt’s Phillips, artist and playwright. By E. Watts Phillips (1891) portrait; J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart (1890); Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play (1883) 159–62; Illust. sporting news vi 161 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. lxv 534, 558, 585 (1874) portrait; Saturday Review lxxii 728 (1891); M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 56, 589.

b. 1799; first appeared under R. W. Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor; acting and stage manager at the [Page 1551][1551]Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage; wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham, Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells 1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre; Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. d. Bethnal green, London 16 Feb. 1855. The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p. 10.

b. Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb. 1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre 1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May 1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12 April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens 1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov. 1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois 13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830; author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany. 1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7; superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct. 1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques; his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy, Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July 1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration 26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866 to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec. 1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes, 2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait; wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations. d. 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. Planché’s Recollections and reflections, 2 vols. (1872); Biograph iii 225–38 (1880); Journal of British Archæol. [Page 1554] [1554]Association xxxvi 261–5 (1880); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i 257–76 (1883); Illustrated Review, ii 353–55 (1870); Cartoon portraits (1873) 102–103; Illust. news of the world vii 273 (1861) portrait; The Critic xix 444 (1859) portrait; Theatre ii 95–99 (1880) portrait.

b. 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at Drury Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the double imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823; My wife, what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A short reign and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of Frederick the Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825; The wife’s stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket Match making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824; Paul Pry 13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June 1826; Lodgings for single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in Paris many years; a brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned his appointment; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb. 1851; author of Crotchets in the air, or a balloon trip 1838; Christmas festivities 1845–8, four specimens; Comic miscellany 1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839; Phineas Quiddy, or sheer industry, 3 vols. 1843. d. Highgate road, Kentish Town, London 5 Feb. 1872. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. J. Poole’s Sketches and recollections, 2 vols. (1835) portrait; J. Poole’s Christmas festivities (1845) portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of memories, 2 ed. (1877) 160–2; Era 18 Feb. 1872 p. 9; New Monthly Mag. xxxi 271–81 (1831) portrait.

Author of a romance entitled The string of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May 26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey 1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844; The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846; The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins 1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.

b. Brompton, London 1819; apprenticed to a firm of engravers in London; partner with Woolgar and Mosley as lessees of the old theatre royal, Duke st, Bradford; first appeared in London at Britannia theatre as Narcissus Fitzfrizzle in Selby’s farce of the Dancing Barber 29 April 1851; acted at the Surrey and Strand theatres; manager of theatre royal, Oldham ; acted in Adam Bede at the Surrey 28 Feb. 1862, as Sir Brian de Bois Gilbert in Ivanhoe at Strand 26 Dec. 1863, and as Rip van Winkle, Covent Garden 14 Feb. 1874; acquired from J.B. Buckstone, the original lessee, the T.R. Bradford 1868, which he held to death; produced panto mimes at Covent Garden theatre 1873-76, wrote The three musketeers, a drama given at Manchester 2 Aug. 1850; The seven sisters, a pantomime, Grecian theatre 1855; Harlequin and the Koh-i-Noor, pantomime, Newcastle 1852, which was played at five theatres; words and songs of Little red riding hood, pantomime, Bradford 1868. d. Bradford 12 April 1880. The Players ii 183 (1860) portrait, Era 18 April 1880 p.6. Note.—Harriet Rice, his wife, b. London, greatly helped her husband from 1868 in all matters relating to stage dressing and setting especially in pantomimes at theatre royal, Bradford and at Covent Garden; lessee of the Bradford theatre April 1880 to her death at Manningham lane, Bradford 23 Aug, 1887. In 1884 her friends presented her with an address and a solid silver tea service.

b. Newark-on-Trent 9 Jany. 1829. played Hamish in Rob Roy at the Wisbech theatre 13 June 1834; acted on the Lincoln circuit 1843-8 ; edited the Mining journal ; joint editor of the Glow-worm, No. 1, June 5, 1865 to No. 1114, Dec 31, 1868; contributed to Fun ; his first piece A night's adventures was produced at Olympic theatre 25 Aug 1851 ; played the Chinese emperor Chimpansee in The Mandarin’s daughter at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1851; his play Castles in the air produced at City theatre 29 April 1854 ; prompter at Lyceum under Charles Mathews 1848-9, 1854 ; acted at Marylebone theatre ; played in Macbeth at the théatre des Italiens, Paris 1855; eccentric comedian and assistant stage manager at Dublin 1856 ; wrote for the Welcome Guest > Wrote a weekly article in the Illustrated Times signed the Theatrical Lounger; wrote the following plays, The Cantab, Strand 14 Feb. 1861; David Garrick, Prince of Wales's, Birmingham April 1864, and Haymarket, London 30 April 1864; Society, Prince of Wales's, Liverpool 8 May 1865, and Prince of Wales’s, London 11 Nov. 1865, where it was played 150 nights ; Ours, Prince of Wales's, Liverpool 23 Aug. 1866, and Prince of Wales’s, London 15 Sept. 1866, which ran 150 nights ; Caste, Prince of Wales’s 6 April 1867, which ran 156 nights ; Play, same house 15 Feb. 1868, ran 106 nights; School, same house 14 Jany. 1869, ran 381 nights, and M.P. same house 23 April 1870; Shadow tree shaft, Princess’s 6 Feb. 1867; A rapid thaw, St James’s 2 March 1867; For love, Holborn 5 Oct. 1867; Passion flowers, T.R. Hull 28 Oct. 1868 ; Home, Haymarket 14 Jany. 1869, ran nearly 200 nights ; My lady Clara, Alexandra theatre, Liverpool 22 Feb. 1869, and under title of Dreams, Gaiety, London 27 March 1869, ran 96 nights; A breach of promise, Globe 10 April 1869; Dublin Bay, T.R. Manchester 18 May 1869, and Folly, London 18 Dec. 1875; Progress, Globe 18 Sept. 1869; The Nightingale, Adelphi 15 Jany. 1870; Birth, New T.R. Bristol 5 Oct. 1870; War, St James’s 16 Jany. 1871: wrote also Constance, an opera produced at Covent Garden theatre; author of three novels, David Garrick 1865; Dazzled not blinded, M.S. ; Stephen Caldrick, M.S : Society, the only play he printed, was dedicated to his dear friend Tom Hood. d. 6 Eton road, Haverstock Hill, London 3 Feb. 1871. bur. Abney Park cemet. 9 Feb., bust at Arundel club. Principal dramatic works of T. W. Robertson, with memoir by his son, 2 vols. (1889) portrait; T. E. Pemberton’s Life and writings of T. W. Robertson (1893) portrait; J. Coleman’s Players and playwrights ii 140-64 (1888) ; Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson (1890) 317-9 portrait ; J.H. Friswell's Modern men of letters (1870) 346-59; W. Archer's English dramatists of to-day (1882) 21-6; Theatre ii 355-60 (1870); Illust Review 1 March 1871 pp. 327-30 portrait ; Newspaper Press v 75, 88 (1871); London Society, Christmas number 1882 pp. 49-62 portrait ; Temple Bar xliv 199 (1875); Mr. and Mrs. Bencroft on and off the stage (1889) 95 et seq. ; I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1871 p. 193 portrait.

b. London 15 Nov. 1800; pupil of Vincent Novello and sir Henry Rowley Bishop; succeeded his brother James Thomas Goodenham Rodwell as lessee of the Adelphi theatre, March 1825 ; his opera The flying Dutchman was produced at the Adelphi, Dec 1826, and his opera The Cornish miners at the English opera house 1827; professor of harmony and composition at the R.A. of Music 1828 ; director of music at Adelphi theatre 29 Sept. 1828, and at Covent Garden theatre 1836 ; failed to establish a national opera in England; author of Songs of the birds 1827; The first rudiments of harmony 1831; Letter to the musicians of Great Britain, plans for the encouragement of native musical talent and for the erection of a national opera 1833 ; A catechism of harmony 1837; A catechism of music 1840; Woman's love, a romance 1846 ; Old London bridge, a romance 1848-9, 2 ed. 1888; brought out the following plays, Teddy the tiler, Covent Garden 1830; I'll be your second, Olympic theatre 11 Oct. 1831; The pride of birth, Adelphi, Jany. 1843; My wife’s out, Covent Garden 2 Oct. 1843; The devil’s ring, a fairy romance, Drury lane 1 April 1850; he also produced The students of Bonn, The chimney piece, The mysterious family, The seven maids of Munich, Harlequin Alfred the great, O'Donoghue and the white house, and Valmondi; he was the composer of Although they have given him my hand, a ballad 1825; The bottle imp 1828 ; Song of the birds 1832; Hagar’s Lamentation 1848 ; O let me seek some woodland cot 1850 ; The jovial friars 1867; his name is attached to upwards of 120 compositions. d. at his lodgings, Upper Ebury st., Pimplico, London 22 Jany. 1852. bur. Brompton cemet. _G.H. B. Rodwell’s Memoirs of an umbrella (1845) portrait ; E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author's life i 131 et seq. (1859) ; T. C. Croker’s Walk to Fulham, edited by B. E. Horne (1896) 49, 76 ; J. D. Brown's Dictionary of musicians (1886) 516.

b. Drumdowney, co. Kilkenny 17 Aug, 1791; educ. Stonyhurst coll. 1804~7; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 15 Nov. 1807, B.A. 1811 ; called to bar in Ireland 1814; QC, 13 July 1830; wrote 7 tragedies namely, Adelaide or the emigrants, produced at Cross st. theatre. Dublin 19 Feb. 1814 and at Covent Garden 23 May 1816; The Apostate, Covent Garden 3 May 1817, ran through the season; Bellamira or the fall of Tunis, Covent Garden 22 April 1818; Evadne 10 Feb. 1819; Montoni 3 May 1820, and The Huguenot 11 Dec. 1822, all at Covent Garden; and an adaptation of Massinger’s Fatal dowry, Drury Lane 1824; devoted himself to the struggle for Catholic emancipation many years; contested Louth 1830; M.P. for Milborne Port, Dorset 1831 ; M.P. for Louth 1831-2; M.P. for Tipperary 1833; vice-president of Board of trade 29 Aug. 1839 to June 1841; P.C. 29 Aug. 1839; judge advocate general 26 June to Sept. 1841; master of the mint 14 July 1846 to Dec. 1850, much blamed for omitting the words Defensatrix fidei Dei gratia on the florin issued 1850; minister at the court of Tuscany 24 Oct. 1850 to death. d. Florence 25 May 1851. bur. Long Orchard, co. Tipperary. _T. Mc Cullagh’s Memoirs of R. L. Sheil, 2 vols. (1855) portrait ; R. C. Sheil’s Sketches i 229-52, ii 250 - 312; J. R. O'Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 26472; G.M. July 1852 pp. 86-8; I.L.N. i 381 (1842) portrait, iv 69 (1844) portrait; C.A. Read’s Cabinet of Irish literature iii 79-113 (1880); W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 223, 229 portrait.

b. Norwich 13 June 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; entered the church of Rome at Norwich 1842; created a knight of St. Gregory by pope Gregory xvi, 1842 ; resided in London 1850 to death; contributed to leading magazines of the day ; secretary of Dramatic authors’ society 15 Oct. 1868 to death; author of 4 novels, Second love and other tales from the note book of a traveller, 3 vols. 1846, anon. ; Gisella, 3 vols) 1847 ; The lily of Paris, or the king’s nurse, 3 vols. 1849; For ever and never, 2 vols. 1884; also of Letters from the Danube, 2 vols. 1847 ; Pictures from revolutionary France, 2 vols. 1849; Life of Weber, 2 vols. 1865; produced in London and the provinces upwards of 60 dramatic pieces, including Second love, Haymarket 23 July 1856: Daddy Hardacre, Olympic 26 March 1857 ; The world and the stage, Haymarket 12 March 1859: A school for coquettes, Strand 4 July 1859: A scrap of paper, adapted from Sardou’s Pattes de mouche, St. James’s 22 April 1861 ; Sybilla, or step by step, St James's 29 Oct. 1864; Black sheep, Olympic 25 April 1868 ; and Lady Dedlock's Secret, adapted from Dickens's Bleak House, Opera Comique 26 March 1884; wrote the libretto for Balfe's opera Bianca, tje nravo's bride 1860. d. 9 Alfred place west, South Kensington, 19 Aug. 1887. bur. St. Thomas's cemet. Fulham 23 Aug. Biograph May and June 1882 pp 399-401; J. Coleman's Players amd playwrights ii 165-76 (1888).

b. Chertsey 24 May 1816; educ. Merchant Taylor's school and Middlesex hospital; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838; prac. tised with his father at Chertsey 1838-41. produced Blanche Heriot, or the Chertsey curfew at Surrey theatre 26 Sept. 1842; wrote extravaganzas for Lyceum theatre 1844-6; published with A. B. Reach a sixpenny monthly called The man in the moon 1847-9; ascended Mont Blanc 12 Aug. 1851; produced his entertainment The overland mail at Willis’s rooms 28 May 1850; The ascent of Mont Blanc, at Egyptian hall 15 March 1852, which he continued with a month's interval every summer down to 6 July 1858; performed before queen and prince consort at Osborne 26 Aug. 1854; author of The — tures of Mr. Ledbury and his friend Jack Johnson, 3 vols. 1844; The fortunes of the Scattergood family, 3 vols. 1845, autobiographical; The marchioness of Brinvilliers 1846; The natural history of the gent 1847; The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad 1848 portrait; The Pottleton legacy, a story of town and country life 1849; m. 1 Aug. 1859 Mary Lucy, elder dau. of Robert Keeley the comedian, she d. 19 March 1870. d. North end lodge, Fulham 23 May 1860. _Goodman’s The Keeley’s (1895) 193, 224-34, 342-5, portraits of A. R. Smith and wife ; Mont Blanc by Albert Smith, with a memoir of the author by Edmund Yates (1860) pp. vii—xxxvi ; Illustrated times 8 Dec. 1855 pp. 437-8 portrait ; Men of the time (1857) 690-91 ; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1st series 1859 portrait xxxv; Fortnightly Review, May 1886 pp. 63642; Illustrated news of the world i (1858) portrait; Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series, ii 5-20 (1877); G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 88-97 ; E. Yates's Recollections i 224-44 (1884), and ii 151-68 (1885) ; Slater’s Rare editions (1894) 260-8.

b. London 1790; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1811; author of Knight Damon and a robber chief 1812; The Bohemian, a tragedy 1817; The Hebrew, a drama 1820; Pride shall have a fall, a comedy 1824 ; Specimens of German romance 1826; The last ball and other tales, 3 vols. 1843; The night dancers, an opera 1846; New curiosities of literature, 2 vols. 1847; The island of Calypso, an operatic masque 1850; and many other books and plays. d. 38 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 12 July 1860. Era 22 July 1860 p. 10.

b. 1811 or 1812; actor at Sadlers Wells theatre ; comedian at Lyceum theatre; wrote many dramas produced at the minor theatres about 1840-50, including The half-caste, or the fatal pearl, produced at Surrey theatre 11 Sept. 1856 ; wrote the libretto of Langton William#s operetta, The miller's daughter, produced at Haymarket 15 May 1865; Editor of Bow Bells to death; resided 18 Station road, Shepherd's Bush. d. Sudbury, Middlesex 31 May 1882. E.L. Blanchard's Life i, 164, 311 (1891), ii 534.

b. 1828; educ. Eton 1841-5, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf. ; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Macbeth travestie, Henley-on-Thames 17 June 1847; Diogenes and his lantern, burlesque, Strand 7 Feb. 1850; Alcestis, the original strong-minded woman, Strand 4 July 1850; Ganem, the slave of love, Olympic 31 May 1852; Shylock, or the merchant of Venice preserved, Olympic 4 July 1853; Abon Hassan, St. James’s 26 Dec. 1854; Pluto and Proserpine, at Haymarket 5 April 1558, in which he punned in Greek, French, and Latin ; The rule of three, Strand 20 Dec. 1858: Electra, in a new electric light, Haymarket 25 April 1859, and other burlesques ; author with H. J. Byron of The miller and his men, produced at Strand theatre 9 April 1860 ; played Sir Peter Teazle, also Coji Baba 1n The forty thieves burlesque at amateur performance of Savage club, Lyceum theatre March 1860. d. Mentone 9 March 1862. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 730 (1891); Atheneum 15 March 1862 p. 365; G.M. April 1862 p. 520.

b. London 7 Oct. 1831; educ. Rugby and Brighton coll.; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb. 6 July 1849, B.A. 1855; cornet 6 Dragoons 18 Jan. 1855, sold out 15 May 1857; studied painting in Munchen and Paris ; exhibited 13 pictures in London 1863-76, namely 5 at R.A. 1863-74, 4 at S.S. and 4 at other galleries ; on the staff of Fun about 1865-70; sketches by him appeared in Punch 1856-8 and from 1874-7 he was a regular literary contributor, he wrote a continuation of Daniel Deronda in Punch’s pocket-book for 1877; one of chief writers in The Tomahawk 1867-70 ; entirely illustrated and more than half wrote The Mask: a humorous and fantastic review of the month Feb. to Dec. 1868: edited and illustrated another paper called The Mask. this was a weekly with coloured cartoons, it lasted 16 weeks only from 10 May to 27 Aug. 1979; represented Daily News paper at coronation of Tsar Alexander iii. at Moscow 27 May 1883 ; managed 2 theatres at Manchester. 18 months; designed more than 5,000 costumes for English stage ; author of On the cards comedy drama in 3 acts, produced at opening night of Gaiety theatre, London 21 Dec. 1868, and 5 other pieces at same house, namely Columbus, extravaganza 17 May 1869, Bird of paradise, farce 26 June 1869, Linda of Chamouni, burlesque 13 Sept. 1869, The king’s pleasure, drama 12 April 1870, Aladdin the second, operatic extrav. 24 Dec. 1870, and Cinderella the younger, extrav. 23 Sept. 1871; wrote also How I found Crusoe, burlesque produced at Olympic 28 Dec. 1872, Calypso, extrav. produced at Court 6 May 1874 and The three conspirators, musical sketch produced at T.R. Belfast 16 Oct. 1874 ; lived latterly in America. d. Barmejat park, New York 31 Aug. 1895. _Biograph May and June 1882 pp. 414-7; The Mask 1868 p. iii prt.; Illust, sp. and dr. news 1879 x 405, 410 prt; The Sketch 25 Sept, 1895 p. 471 prt.

b. about 1826 ; acted in small parts at Sadler’s Wells theatre, London where he played Hecate in Macbeth 27 Aug. 1853 ; wrote about ten dramas for City of London theatre 1848-53, including Civilisation adapted from Voltaire's L'Ingénu, produced Oct. 1852 and again at Strand theatre 17 Jany. 1853 and frequently revived in England and America; The Egyptian, being a revision under a new title of his drama Zenobia, produced April 1853 ; his play The battle of the heart was Produced at Duke’s theatre, Holborn, London 13 March 1880; 41 plays by him, including Civilization and The Egyptian, both published, were the property of Nelson Lee 1880. d. 29 Aug. 1853. M. Williams’s Some London theatres (1883) 61-6; E.L. Blanchard's Life i 111 (1891); Rideing's Dramatic Notes (1881) 17, 81.

b. 1815; wrote about 200 plays, including The Red Cross, produced Sadler’s Wells 1831, Cousin Peter, Ihe ladies’ seminary and My valet and I, all produced at Olympic 1841-3, The ruby ring or the murder at old Sadler’s Wells, The old blue lion or death on the seventh stair, Ben the boatswain, and Darnley or the keep of the Castle hill produced at Surrey theatre; is the Glenalvon Fogg of Albert Smith’s novel The Scattergood family. d. 29 Sept. 1854. E. L. Blanchard’s Life i 48, 122, 156 (1891).

b. Hampton court, Middlesex 19 July 1824; mastered the French, German, Italian and Spanish languages; wrote a tale entitled The death of Darnley in The Mirror 1840; author of more than 30 farces, including I’ve written to Brown, produced at Olympic theatre, London Oct. 1859, Ici on parle Français, Adelphi 11 May 1859, ran 200 nights, Nursey Chickweed, Princess's 12 Nov. 1859, Turn him out, Strand 17 Aug. 1863, ran 123 nights, My wife’s maid, Adelphi 8 Aug. 1864, Pipkin’s Rural retreat, Adelphi 18 Jany. 1866, Larkins’s Love letters, Holborn 6 Oct. 1866, A cure for the fidgets, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867, Flo's first frolic, Princess's 23 May 1868, wrote also two dramas, The silent system, produced Strand 3 July 1862 and The better half, produced Strand 26 June 1865. d. 340 Fulham road, London 8 Sept. 1874. _Era almanac (1868) 28 ; Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 735 (1891).

The winning card, adapted, first performed at Haymarket theatre 14 Oct. 1867 ; The chamber of horrors, farce, first performed at Holborn theatre 18 April 1870; Paul and Virginia, burlesque, first performed at Olympic theatre 15 Oct. 1870; author of “Shoddy” a Yorkshire tale of home 1877.

b. 1824; author of the following dramatic pieces, Jason and Medea, or the golden fleece at Colchis, produced at Grecian saloon, London 28 Aug. 1851; Language of flowers, at Olympic 25 May 1852; A tale twice told, at Olympic 29 Sept. 1858; Sisterly service, at Strand 24 Jany. 1861 ; Maid of honour, at Strand 16 May 1864; A winning hazard, Prince of Wales's 15 April 1865, being the first piece produced by Marie Wilton in her house; the squire of Ringwood Chase, New Royalty 1 May 1865. d. Rotherfield st. Islington. London 18 Sept 1868. The life of E.L. Blanchard ii 736 (1891); Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage (1889) 87-9.

b. Howard place, Calton hill, Edinburgh 3 July 1831; educ. Highgate school ; in secretary's department general post office 11 May 1847 ; head of missing letter department 1862-70, in telograph department 1870-2, retired on pension of £291, March 1872, which he commuted for £3,862, 30 April 1872; editor of Comic Times Aug. to Nov. 1855, of The Train Nov. 1855 to June 1857, the first number was issued 1 Jany. 1856; flaneur of the Morning Star to Aug. 1867; editor of Town Talk May 1858 to 1859; acting editor of Temple Bar 1860, editor 1863-7; gave an entertainment with Harold Power at Egyptian hall, London Dec. 1862; editor of Tinsley’s Magazine, 4 vols. 1867-8 ; editor of Time: a monthly miscellany of interesting and amusing literature April 1879 to 1884; lectured in America Sept. 1872 to Jany. 1873; started with Grenville Murray The World: a journal for men and women 8 July 1874, sole proprietor Dec. 1874 to death; member of Carlton club ; author with N. H. Harrington of A night at Notting hill: a farce, produced at Adelphi 1857; My friend from Leatherhead, produced at Lyceum 23 Feb. 1857; If the cap fits: a comedietta ; Your likeness—one shilling, produced Strand theatre April 1858; Double Dummy, produced Lyceum 3 March 1858; Hit him, he has no friends, produced Strand 17 Sept. 1860; author with A. W. Dubourg of Without love: a drama, at Olympic 16 Dec. 1872 ; author of After office hours 1863 ; Broken to harness, a story of English domestic life, 3 vols. 1864, 6 ed. 1867, a French version 1866; Pages in waiting 1865; The business of pleasure, 2 vols. 1865 ; Running the gauntlet, a novel, 3 vols. 1865; Land at last, a novel in three books 1866, French version as Un drame de la Rue 1881; Kissing the rod, a novel, 3 vols. 1866, dramatised by Godfrey as The Millionaire ; The forlorn hope, a novel, 3 vols. 1867; Black sheep, a novel, 3 vols. 1867, dramatised by J. P. Simpson at Olympic 25 April 1868; The rock ahead, a novel, 3 vols. 1868, and ten other novels; editor of Smedley’s Gathered leaves 1865; Mortimer Collins’s Thoughts in my garden 1880. d. Savoy hotel, London 20 May 1894, cremated at Woking ; his library sold at Sotheby's 21 and 22, Jany. 1895 for £960. Edmund Yates, his recollections and ex periences, 2 vols. (1884) portrait, 4 ed. (1885) ; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 86 portrait ; Cartoon portraits (1873) 104-5 portrait ; Temple Bar July 1894 p. 878; The new review July 1894 p. 87; Illustrated Times 3 Jany. 1863 p. 13 portrait ; Mitchell's Newspaper press directory (1895) 84 portrait; The Mask (1868) 151 portrait; Vanity Fair 16 Nov. 1878 portrait ; I.L.N. xlii 49, 56 (1863) portratt, and 26 May 1894 portrait.

Note.—He was sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment 2 April 1884 for libelling earl of Lonsdale, but allowed to stand out on bail pending an appeal, which was heard 16 Jany. 1885, and went against him, he was released from Holloway jail 10 March. _Law Reports Q.B. division xiv 648-66 (1885). He left personal estate of the gross value of £31,719, he desired that immediately after his death his jugular vein should be opened by his medical attendant or some other surgeon and that a fee of 20 guineas should be paid for the operation.