Mr Nightingale
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(18**-18**) Port Captain and amateur actor/director. He apparently obtained the African Theatre for two (unspecified) nights in 1854, to put on Macbeth with the mariners of Simonstown, under the patronage of the Lt. Governor. Probably the same Captain Nightingale who apparently appeared "in character" as "Macbeth" in an evening's entertainment put on by the amateurs of "the Royal Naval Theatre of the H.M.S. Megaera" in the Simon's Town Theatre on 28 March, 1859.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: p. 409
Bosman, 1980: p. 165
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