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Captain Fisher (18**-18**) was a with the British Garrison at Cape Town and amateur actor during the 1850s.
An accomplished actor "high above the class called amateur actors" (Bosman, 1928[1]: p.404), he was a stalwart of Captain Hall's Company, and had most of the leading roles in the pieces put on by the Officers of the Garrison in 1852-3. These include The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried, Bombastes Furioso and Did you ever send your wife to Camberwell? in 1853.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 404-5, 493.
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