BARRETT, LAWRENCE (1838-1891)

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BARRETT, LAWRENCE (1838-1891) , American actor, was born of Irish parents in Paterson, New

Jersey

JERSEY
JERSEY, EARLS OF

, on the 4th of April 1838. His family name was Brannigan. He made his first stage appearance at

Detroit

DETROIT

as Murad in The French Spy in 1853. In December 1856 he made his first New

York

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  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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appearance at the Chambers Street theatre as Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback. In 1858 he was in the stock company at the Boston Museum. He served with distinction in the Civil War as captain in the 28th Massachusetts infantry regiment. From 1867 to 187o, with John M`Cullough, he managed the California theatre, San Francisco. Among his many and varied parts may be mentioned Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Shylock,Richard III., Wolsey, Benedick, Richelieu, David

Garrick

GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

, Hernani, Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Boker's (18231890) Francesca da Rimini, and James Harebell in The Man o' Airlie. He played Othello to Booth's Iago and

Cassius

to his Brutus. He acted in London in 1867, 1881, 1883 and 1884, his Richelieu in Bulwer Lytton's drama being considered his best part. He wrote a life of Edwin Forrest in the American Actors

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

(Boston, 1881), and an admirable sketch of Edwin Booth in Edwin Booth and his Contemporaries (Boston, 1886). He died on the 20th of March 1891.

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