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WEBSTER, BENJAMIN NOTTINGHAM (1797-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 459 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEBSTER, See also:BENJAMIN See also:NOTTINGHAM (1797-1882) , See also:English actor, manager and dramatic writer, was See also:born in See also:Bath on the 3rd of See also:September 1797, the son of a dancing See also:master. First appearing as See also:Harlequin, and then in small parts at See also:Drury See also:Lane, he went to the Haymarket in 1829, and was given leading See also:comedy See also:character business. He was the lessee of the Haymarket from 1837; he built the new Adelphi See also:theatre (1859); later the Olympic, Princess's and St See also:James's came under his See also:control; and he was the See also:patron of all the contemporary playwrights and many of the best actors, who owed their opportunity of success to him. As a character actor he was unequalled in his See also:day, especially in such parts as Triplet in Masks and Faces, Joey Ladle in No Thoroughfare, and See also:John Peerybingle in his own dramatization of The See also:Cricket on the See also:Hearth. He wrote, translated or adapted nearly a See also:hundred plays. Webster took his formal farewell of the See also:stage in 1874, and he died on the 3rd of See also:July 1882. His daughter, Harriette Georgiana (d. 1897), was the first wife of See also:Edward See also:Levy-See also:Lawson, 1st See also:baron Burnham; and his son, W. S. Webster, had three See also:children—Benjamin Webster (b. 1864; married to See also:Miss May See also:Whitby), Annie (Mrs A. E.

Georgeand Lizzie (Mrs See also:

Sydney See also:Brough)—all well known on the See also:London stage, and further connected with it in each See also:case by See also:marriage.

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