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EDWIN, JOHN (17491790)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 8 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EDWIN, JOHN (17491790) ,
English
  actor, was born in London on the loth of August 1749, the son of a watchmaker. As a youth, he appeared in the provinces, in
minor
  parts; and at Bath in 1768 he formed a connexion with a Mrs Walmsley, a
milliner
 , who bore him a son, but whom he afterwards deserted. His first London
appearance
  was at the Haymarket in 1776 as
Flaw in
Samuel
  Foote's The Cozeners, but when George Colman took over the theatre he was given better parts and became its
leading actor. In 1779 he was at Covent
Garden
 , and played there or at the Haymarket until his death on the 31st of October
1790. Ascribed to him are The Last Legacy of John Edwin, 178o; Edwin's Jests and Edwin's Pills to Purge Melancholy.
His son, JOHN EDWIN (1768-1805), made a first
appearance
  on the stage at the Haymarket. as Hengo in Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca in 1778, and from that time acted frequently with his father, and managed the private theatricals organized by his intimate friend Lord Barrymore at Wargrave, Berks. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Rebecca
Richards
 , an actress already well known in juvenile parts, and played at the Hay-market and elsewhere thereafter with her. He died in Dublin on the 22nd of
February
  18o5. His widow joined the
Drury
 
Lane
  company (then playing, on account of the fire of 1809, at the Lyceum), and took all the leading characters in the comedies of the day. She died on the 3rd of August 1854.


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