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(18**-18**) Amateur actor and singer.
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(18**-18**) Apparently a conservative local merchant in Cape Town, one of the many people satirized in ''[[De Temperantisten]]'' by [[Charles Etienne Boniface|Boniface]], where he is called "Loveclaret", (and described as "een bejaarde Koopman" - "an elderly buyer/businessman").  
  
He was seemingly the leader and one of the main performers in productions by the [[Garrison Players]] in the early period (1840-1842).
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(Clearly confused with the actor and singer '''[[D. M'Donald]]''' in the ''Index'' to [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1828)   
 
 
Among his roles in 1842 were the lead ("Pierce O'Hara") in ''[[The Irish Attorney]]'' (Bernard), "Desdemona in ''[[Othello Travestie]]'' (Dowling), and a role in ''[[Love, Law and Physic]]'' (Kenney).    
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
Bosman, 1928: pp.  394-5, 493  
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp.  302-4  
  
 
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(18**-18**) Apparently a conservative local merchant in Cape Town, one of the many people satirized in De Temperantisten by Boniface, where he is called "Loveclaret", (and described as "een bejaarde Koopman" - "an elderly buyer/businessman").

(Clearly confused with the actor and singer D. M'Donald in the Index to F.C.L. Bosman, 1828)

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 302-4

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