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John Brunton (actor)
John Brunton (1741–1822) was an English actor who became the manager of a circuit of theatres in and around Norfolk. He assiduously cultivated emerging talent in his company, which also produced actors amongst his children and grandchildren. He also used funds from his theatrical successes to fund philanthropy, including establishing the Norwich Theatrical Fund. Early life Brunton was born in Norwich, the son of a soap maker, and educated at the grammar school under Rev Wilton. He served an apprenticeship to a grocer before moving to work with a relative in Canterbury, where he met and married a daughter of Mr. Friend, a tailor and draper. Later he went to London as a grocer and tea-dealer. Early career A friendship with J. Younger of Covent Garden theatre prompted him to appear on the stage in ''Cyrus (play), Cyrus'' on 11 April 1774 and on 3 May as the title character in ''Hamlet''. He then took up acting in Norwich where, on 2 September 1775 he was again Hamlet with the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals, it is the largest settlement and has the largest urban area in East Anglia. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider built-up area had a population of 213,166 in 2019. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medieval city in the United Kingdom. It includes cobbled streets such as Elm Hill, Timber Hill and Tombland; ancient buildings such as St Andrew's Hall; half-timbered houses such as Dragon Hall, The Guildhall and Strangers' Hall; the Art Nouveau of the 1899 Royal Arcade; many medieval lanes; and the winding River Wensum that flows through the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Murphy (writer)
Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. Biography Murphy was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. He studied at the Jesuit-run College of Saint-Omer, France, and was a gifted student of the Latin and Greek classics. He worked as an actor in the theatre, became a barrister, a journalist and finally a (not very original) playwright. He edited '' Gray's Inn Journal'' between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. Murphy is known for his translations of Tacitus in 1753. They were still published in 1922. He wrote also three biographies: his 1792 '' An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson'', his 1762 '' Fielding's Works'' and his 1801 ''Life of David Garrick''. Murphy is thought to have coined the legal ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Campaign
The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the French Army of the North (France), Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army was commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, but he left for Paris after the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Command then rested on Marshals Marshal Soult, Soult and Marshal Grouchy, Grouchy, who were in turn replaced by Marshal Davout, who took command at the request of the French Provisional Government. The Anglo-allied army was commanded by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince Blücher. The war between France and the Seventh Coalition came when the other European Great Powers refused to recognise Napoleon as Emperor of the French upon his return from exile on the Principality of Elba, island of Elba, and declared war on him, rather than France, as they still recognised Louis XVIII as the king of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Craven, 1st Earl Of Craven (1770–1825)
Major-General William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (28 September 1770 – 30 July 1825) was a British soldier. Early life Craven was the eldest son of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Berkeley. Among his siblings was Maria Craven (wife of William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton) and Arabella Craven (wife of General the Hon. Frederick St John). In 1780, after thirteen years of marriage, and reported affairs on both sides, his parents parted permanently. After the death of his father in 1791, his mother married Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Charles' wife, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, also died earlier in 1791. His paternal grandfather was the Rev. John Craven, brother of William Craven, 5th Baron Craven, who his father succeeded as Baron Craven in 1769. His maternal grandparents were Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley and the former Elizabeth Drax (a daughter of Henry Drax). Career He succeeded his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Yates (actress)
Elizabeth Yates ( Brunton; 21 January 1799 – 30 August 1860) was an English actress. She appeared on the stage under the names Miss Brunton, Elizabeth Brunton, Elizabeth Yates, Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Yates late Miss Brunton. Early life and family Elizabeth Brunton was born at Norwich on 21 January 1799 to a theatrical family. Her grandfather, John Brunton, acted at Covent Garden Theatre in 1774 and was later a theatre manager; her father, also John Brunton (1775–1849), went on the stage in 1795, and later appeared at Covent Garden in 1800 as Frederick in ''Louisa's Vows''. He also managed theatres, including those in Brighton, Birmingham, Exeter and King's Lynn. Her mother was the actress Anna Ross, sister to Fanny Robertson, and Yates had at least three siblings. Elizabeth's aunt, Anne Brunton, was an actress who also appeared at Covent Garden. Another aunt, Louisa Brunton, also an actress, later married Major-General William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven. Brunton marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Warren (elder Actor)
William Warren (born Bath, Somerset, 10 May 1767; died Baltimore, MD, United States, 19 October 1832, was an actor, comedian, and theater manager. His first appearance was as Young Norval in Home's tragedy of ''Douglas''. He also performed in Yorkshire. As Trueman in ''George Barnwell'', as Hastings in ''She Stoops to conquer'', as a pilgrim in ''King Richard'', Mirvan in ''Orphan of China'' and First Scholar in ''The Padlock'' at Leeds theatre. Soon afterward, Warren came to the United States, making his debut at Baltimore, Maryland, as Friar Lawrence in ''Romeo and Juliet''. In 1805 he went to England, as agent for the Philadelphia Theatre, to recruit a company of comedians. After his return in 1806 Warren took the twice widowed actress, Ann Merry in April 1807 as his second wife. Their only child together died at birth, and Merry died in 1808. Warren married Esther Fortune in 1809, with whom he had six children. Later, Warren became manager of the Chestnut Street Theatre in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Brand
Hannah Brand (1754–1821) was an English actress, poet and playwright. After her brief theatrical career, she became a governess. Life and career Hannah Brand was born in Norwich, where she ran a "young Ladies Boarding School, No. 18, St. Giles's Broad-street" with her sister, Mary, until she turned to the stage. At the Miss Brands' Academy for Young Ladies, day and boarding students were taught English Language, needlework, writing, arithmetic, drawing, music, dancing and French. Her historical tragedy ''Huniades, or, The siege of Belgrave,'' was first produced in John Brunton's Theatre-Royal, Norwich in April 1791 and performed on at least three nights and was, according to the ''Norwich Mercury'', "well received" by "a genteel audience." Brand was due to appear at the Haymarket on 14 January but did not on account of a sudden indisposition. A subsequent performance by the Drury-Lane company at the Haymarket on 19 January 1792, however, in which she herself appeared (despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Battle Of Hexham
''The Battle of Hexham'' is a 1789 history play by the British writer George Colman the Younger. It is based around the 1464 Battle of Hexham, a decisive Yorkist victory during the War of the Roses. It revived Colman's career after the disappointment of his works following his earlier hit ''Inkle and Yarico''. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 11 August 1789 with a cast that included John Edwin and Maria Theresa Kemble. It helped reinvigorate the history genre. It combined a mixture of comedy, pathos and mystery and owned a great deal of its inspiration to Shakespeare's histories.Taylor p.48 It appeared in Dublin at the Crow Street Theatre. It was revived again at the Haymarket on 12 June 1793 and the cast included William Barrymore as Gondibert, John Bannister as Gubbins, Richard Suett as Fool, Robert Baddeley as Corporal and Maria Theresa Kemble Maria Theresa Kemble (1774–1838), née Marie Thérèse Du Camp, was an Austrian-born English actress, singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Robertson
Fanny Robertson (1765 – 18 December 1855), born Frances Mary Ross, was an actress and later the manager of the provincial theatres of the Lincoln Circuit. Family Robertson's parents were the actors William Ross (died 1781) and his wife Elizabeth (née Mills), later Mrs John Brown (died 1823).Highfill et al.pp. 378–379 and 538/ref> Her younger sister Anna Ross married the actor-manager John Brunton. Anna and John's eldest daughter was the actress Elizabeth Yates, and John's sister Louisa Brunton, another actress, married Major-General William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven. Her half-brothers John Mills Brown, Henry Brown and half-sister Mary Clarke ( Brown) were also actors who had appeared with her on the Lincoln Circuit. She married Thomas Shaftoe Robertson, actor and manager, on 8 September 1793. They had at least three children, Richard Shaftoe (b. 1794), Thomas Shaftoe (b. 1795) and John (b. 1796). A nephew was William Shaftoe Robertson, whose most famous children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ross
Anna Ross Brunton (1773 – ?) was an English actress and dramatist and part of an extended family of actors. She began writing for the stage at the age of fifteen and was acting by that time, sometimes in London, but mostly in the English provinces. She continued to perform until at least 1820. Early life Anna Ross was born in 1773 to the actor William Ross (died 1781) and his wife Elizabeth Mills, later Mrs John Brown (died 1823). She had an elder sister, Frances Mary Ross (later Fanny Robertson), and a younger half-brother, American John Mills Brown, both actors. She married the actor-manager John Brunton on 6 September 1792, and they had at least four children. Two of their daughters were actors; the eldest was Elizabeth Yates. One son joined the British Navy. John's sister Louisa Brunton, an actress, married Major-General William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven. Ross wrote the comic opera ''The Cottagers'' when she was fifteen. It was published in 1788 and was performed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Dudley, 1st Baronet
The Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, 1st Baronet (25 August 1745 – 1 February 1824) was a British minister, magistrate and playwright. He was born in Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, but in 1763 his father moved the family to Essex to take up a Rectory at North Fambridge near Chelmsford. On his father's death, Bate Dudley took over the ministry.Obituary, 1824, pp. 273-276. In Essex, he owned Bradwell Lodge, a Tudor country house near Bradwell-on-Sea and engaged the architect John Johnson to construct a large extension attached to the south side of the original house, designed in a Neoclassical style. Bate Dudley was a great supporter of, and chronicled the life of the artist Thomas Gainsborough . Much of this work was published in the ''Morning Herald'' which Bate Dudley owned and ran, and the ''Morning Post'' with which he was also associated but had left to set up the ''Herald'' after a disagreement in 1780. Much of this was republished in 1915 in ''Life of Gainsborough'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Cowley (writer)
Hannah Cowley (14 March 1743 – 11 March 1809) was an English playwright and poet. Although Cowley's plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the 19th century, critic Melinda Finberg rates her as "one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century" whose "skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue and creating sprightly, memorable comic characters compares favourably with her better-known contemporaries, Goldsmith and Sheridan." Cowley's plays were produced frequently in her lifetime. The major themes of her plays – including her first, ''The Runaway'' (1776), and her major success, which is being revived, ''The Belle's Stratagem'' (1780) – revolve around marriage and how women strive to overcome the injustices imposed by family life and social custom. Early success Born Hannah Parkhouse, she was the daughter of Hannah (née Richards) and Philip Parkhouse, a bookseller in Tiverton, Devon. Sources disagree about some details of her married life, cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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