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BANNISTER, CHARLES (1738-18o4)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 354 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BANNISTER, CHARLES (1738-18o4) , English actor and
singer
 , was born in Gloucestershire, and after some
amateur
  and provincial experience made his first London
appearance
  in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket. Gifted with a fine
bass
  voice,
Bannister
  acquired a reputation as a
singer
  at
Ranelagh
  and elsewhere, as well as an actor, and was received with such favour that
Garrick
  engaged him for Drury Lane. He died on the 26th of October 1804.
His son JOHN
BANNISTER
  (1760-1836), born at Deptford on the 12th of May 176o, first studied to be a painter, but soon took to the stage. His first formal
appearance
  was at the Haymarket in 1778 as Dick in The Apprentice. The same year at Drury Lane he played in James Miller's version of Voltaire's Mahomet the part of Zaphna, which he had studied under
Garrick
 . The Palmira of the cast was Mrs Robinson (" Perdita "). Bannister was the best low comedian of his day. As manager of Drury Lane (1802) he was no less successful. He retired in 1815 and died on the 7th of November 1836. He never gave up his taste for painting, and
Gainsborough
 , Morland and Rowlandson were among his friends.
See Adolphus's Memoirs of John Bannister (2 vols., 1838).


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