Summary

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

He was again at Covent Garden for a few years, and next joined Benjamin Webster at the Haymarket, as stage-manager as well as actor. In 1843 at the close of his performance of the title-part in Mark Lemon’s Old Parr, he was stricken with paralysis on the stage. He was, however, able to reappear the following year, and he remained at the Haymarket ten years more, though his acting never again reached its former level. For a time he managed the Strand, and, 1850–1853, was lessee of the Olympic. During his later years he confined himself to old men parts, in which he was unrivalled.
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