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See also:MATHEWS, See also:CHARLES (1776-1835) , See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:London on the 28th of See also:June 1776. His See also:father was a serious bookseller," who also officiated as See also:minister in one of See also:Lady See also:Huntingdon's chapels. Mathews was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School. His love for the See also:stage was formed in his boyhood, when he was apprentice to his father, and the latter in 1794 unwillingly permitted him to enter on a theatrical engagement in See also:Dublin. For several years Mathews had not only to content himself with thankless parts at a See also:low See also:salary, but in May 1803 he made his first London See also:appearance at the Haymarket as Jabel in See also:Cumberland's The See also:Jew and as Lingo in The Agreeable Surprise. From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time his professional career was an uninterrupted See also:triumph. He had a wonderful See also:gift of See also:mimicry, and could completely disguise his See also:personality without the smallest See also:change of See also:dress. The versatility and originality of his See also:powers were admirably displayed in his " At
Homes," begun in the See also:Lyceum See also:theatre in 1818, which, according to See also:Leigh See also:Hunt, " for the richness and variety of his See also:humour, were as See also:good as See also:half a dozen plays distilled." Off the stage his See also:simple and See also:kind-hearted disposition won him See also:affection and esteem. In 1822 Mathews visited See also:America, his observation on his experiences there forming for the reader a most entertaining portion of his See also:biography. From See also:infancy his See also:health had been uncertain, and the toils of his profession gradually under-See also:mined it. In 1834 he paid a second visit to America. His last appearance in New See also:York was on the Ilth of See also:February 1835, when he played See also:Samuel Coddle in Married See also:Life and See also:Andrew Steward in The Lone See also:House. He died at See also:Plymouth on the 28th of June 1835. In 1797 he had married Eliza Kirkham Strong (d. 1802), and in 1803 See also:Anne See also:Jackson, an actress, the author of the popular and diverting See also:Memoirs, by Mrs Mathews (4 vols., 1838-1839).
His son CHARLES 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 MATHEWS (1803-1878), who was born at See also:Liverpool on the 26th of See also:December 1803, became even better known as an actor. After attending Merchant Taylors' School he was articled as See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil to an architect, and continued for some years nominally to follow this profession. His first public appearance on the stage was made on the 7th of December 1835, at the Olympic, London, as See also:George Rattleton in his own See also:play The Humpbacked See also:Lover, and as Tim Topple the See also:Tiger in Leman Rode's Old and See also:Young Stager. In 1838 he married Madame See also:Vestris, then lessee of the Olympic, but neither his management of this theatre, nor subsequently of Covent See also:Garden, nor of the Lyceum, resulted in pecuniary success, although the introduction of scenery more realistic and careful in detail than had hitherto been employed was due to his enterprise. In the See also:year of his See also:marriage he visited America, but without receiving a very cordial welcome. As an actor he held in See also:England an unrivalled See also:place in his See also:peculiar vein of See also:light See also:eccentric See also:comedy. The easy See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace of his manner, and the imperturbable solemnity with which he perpetrated his absurdities, never failed to See also:charm and amuse; his humour was never broad, but always measured and restrained. It was as the leading See also:character in such plays as the See also:Game of See also:Speculation, My Awful Dad, Cool as a See also:Cucumber, See also:Patter versus Clatter, and Little Toddlekins, that he specially excelled. In 1856 Mme Vestris died, and in the following year Mathews again visited the See also:United States, where in 1858 he married Mrs A. H. See also:Davenport. In 1861 they gave a See also:series of " At Homes " at the Haymarket theatre, which were almost as popular as had been those of the See also:elder Mathews. Charles James Mathews was one of the few English actors who played in See also:French successfully,—his appearance in See also:Paris in 1863 in a French version of Cool as a Cucumber, written by himself, being received with See also:great approbation. He also played there again in 1865 as See also:Sir Charles Coldcream in the See also:original play L'Homme blase ( English version by See also:Boucicault, Used up). After reaching his sixty-See also:sixth year, Mathews. set out on a tour See also:round the See also:world, in which was included a third visit to America, and on his return in 1872 he continued to See also:act without interruption till within a few See also:weeks of his See also:death on the 24th of June 1878. He made his last appearance in New York at See also:Wallack's theatre on the 7th of June 1872, in H. J. See also:Byron's Not such a See also:Fool as he Looks. His last appearance in London was at the See also:Opera Comique on the 2nd of June 1877, in The Liar and The Cosy Couple. At See also:Stalybridge he gave his last performance on the 8th of June 1878, when he played See also:Adonis See also:Evergreen in his own comedy My Awful Dad.
See the Life of Charles James Mathews, edited by Charles See also:Dickens (2 vols., 1879) ; H. G. See also:Paine in Actors and Actresses of Great See also:Britain and the United States (New York, 1886).
End of Article: MATHEWS, CHARLES (1776-1835)
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