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See also:BENSLEY, See also:ROBERT , an 18th-See also:century See also:English actor, of whom See also:Charles See also:Lamb in the Essays of Elia speaks with See also:special praise. His See also:early See also:life is obscure, and he is said to have served in See also:America as a See also:lieutenant of See also:marines; but he appeared at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1765, and at that See also:house and at Covent See also:Garden, and later at the Haymarket, he played important parts up to 1796, when he retired from the See also:stage. He appears then to have been given a small See also:post under the See also:government, a paymastership, which he resigned in 1798. He is stated in various quarters to have died in 1817, but Mr See also:Joseph See also:Knight shows in his See also:article in the Dict. Nat. Biog. that this is due to a confusion with another See also:man named See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Bensley, who possibly belonged to the See also:family of printers of whom See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Bensley (d. 1833) was the See also:chief representative. On the stage he was simply " Mr Bensley," but though he is named William and even See also:Richard in some accounts, Mr Knight shows that his name was certainly Robert. The actual date of his See also:death is unknown, though it was probably later than 18og, when he is said to have inherited a See also:fortune. His See also:great See also:character was Malvolio, but Charles Lamb's fervent admiration of his acting seems to have outrun the See also:general See also:opinion.
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