Edward William Elton
Edward William Elton (August 1794 – 20 July 1843) was an English actor. Biography Elton was born in London, in the parish of Lambeth, in August 1794, and was trained for the law in the office of a solicitor named Springhall in Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn. His father, whose name was Elt, was a schoolmaster in the neighbourhood of Tottenham Court Road, and got up plays among his scholars. In these, at the Sans Souci Theatre in Leicester Place, and subsequently at Pym's private theatre, Wilson Street, Gray's Inn Lane, Elton acted, as a youth. After joining a strolling company, he appeared, in 1823, as utility actor at the Olympic, playing in ''A Fish out of Water,'' where he made the acquaintance of Tyrone Power. At Christmas he went to the Liverpool Amphitheatre, where the following year, after a summer engagement at Birmingham, under Alfred Bunn, he played Napoleon in the spectacle of the ''Battle of Waterloo''. He then, at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, played Cominius i ...
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Verulam Buildings
Verulam may refer to: People * Baron Verulam * Earl of Verulam Places * Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal * Verulam Township, Ontario * Common abbreviation of Verulamium, third-largest city in Roman Britain, near modern-day St Albans Other * Radio Verulam, a community radio station in West Hertfordshire * HMS Verulam (ship) * Verulam School, state secondary school in St Albans, England See also

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