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BENSLEY, ROBERT , an 18th-century English actor, of whom Charles Lamb in the Essays of Elia speaks with special
lieutenant
marines
house
Garden , and later at the Haymarket, he played important parts up to 1796, when he retired from the stage. He appears then to have been given a small post under the government, a paymastership, which he resigned in 1798. He is stated in various quarters to have died in 1817, but Mr Joseph Knight shows in his article in the Dict. Nat. Biog. that this is due to a confusion with another man named William Bensley, who possibly belonged to the family of printers of whom Thomas
chief
great
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