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See also:BANNISTER, See also:CHARLES (1738-18o4) , See also:English actor and See also:singer, was See also:born in See also:Gloucestershire, and after some See also:amateur and provincial experience made his first See also:London See also:appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket. Gifted with a See also:fine See also:bass See also:voice, Bannister acquired a reputation as a singer at See also:Ranelagh and elsewhere, as well as an actor, and was received with such favour that See also:Garrick engaged him for See also:Drury See also:Lane. He died on the 26th of See also:October 1804.
His son See also:JOHN BANNISTER (1760-1836), born at See also:Deptford on the 12th of May 176o, first studied to be a painter, but soon took to the See also:stage. His first formal appearance was at the Haymarket in 1778 as See also:Dick in The Apprentice. The same See also:year at Drury Lane he played in See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Miller's version of See also:Voltaire's See also:Mahomet the See also:part of Zaphna, which he had studied under Garrick. The Palmira of the See also:cast was Mrs See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson (" Perdita "). Bannister was the best See also:low comedian of his See also:day. As manager of Drury Lane (1802) he was no less successful. He retired in 1815 and died on the 7th of See also:November 1836. He never gave up his See also:taste for See also:painting, and See also:Gainsborough, See also:Morland and See also:Rowlandson were among his See also:friends.
See See also:Adolphus's See also:Memoirs of John Bannister (2 vols., 1838).
End of Article: BANNISTER, CHARLES (1738-18o4)
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