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AICKIN, FRANCIS (d. 18o5)

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AICKIN, FRANCIS (d. 18o5)

AICKIN, See also:
FRANCIS
FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)
FRANCIS (d. 18o5) , Irish actor, first appeared in See also:

LONDON

London in 1765 as See also:

Dick Amlet in See also:

VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN (1664-1726)

Vanbrugh's The Confederacy at See also:

DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

Lane. He acted there, and at Covent See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, until 1792. His repertory consisted of over eighty characters, and among his best parts were the See also:

GHOST (a word common to the W. Teutonic languages; O.E. vest, Dutch, 'geest, Ger. Geist)

Ghost in See also:

HAMLET

Hamlet and Jaques in As You Like It. His success in impassioned declamatory roles obtained for him the See also:

NICKNAME

nickname of " See also:

TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

Tyrant." His younger See also:

BROTHER

brother See also:

JAMES AICKIN (d. 1803) was playing leading parts in both See also:

COMEDY

comedy and tragedy at the See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, when he gave offence to his public by his protest against the See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge of a See also:

FELLOW

fellow-actor. He therefore went to London, and from 1767 to 'Soo was' a member of the Drury Lane See also:

COMPANY

Company and for some years a See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy manager. He quarrelled with See also:

John See also:

Philip See also:

Kemble, with whom, in 1792, he fought a bloodless See also:

DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

duel.

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