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(18**-18**) Lieutenant in the 73rd Regiment at the Cape and amateur actor in the 1850s. Popular because of his "inimitable acting and self-possession" ([[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928, p.404), he had major roles in most of the pieces put on by [[Captain Hall]] and 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.
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(18**-18**) Lieutenant in the 73rd Regiment at the Cape and amateur actor in the 1850s. Popular because of his "inimitable acting and self-possession" ([[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928, p.404), he had major roles in most of 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.
  
  

Revision as of 06:53, 10 June 2014

(18**-18**) Lieutenant in the 73rd Regiment at the Cape and amateur actor in the 1850s. Popular because of his "inimitable acting and self-possession" (Bosman, 1928, p.404), he had major roles in most of 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

Bosman, 1928: p. 403-4.

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