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SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 270 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819) , English actor, the son of a city tea merchant, was educated at Eton and went up to Cam-bridge, but his wild pranks soon ended his college career and brought him back to London. His first stage
appearance
  was in 1753 at Covent Garden, where he remained for twenty years, playing important parts. In 1774 he was at Drury Lane under
Garrick
 's management. His forte was gay comedy, and he was the
original
 , indeed unrivalled, Charles Surface. It was in this part that he made his farewell
appearance
  in 1788. He died on the 13th of September 1819. His sporting tastes and social connexionshe married the. sister of a peerled to his being called "
Gentleman
 
Smith
 ," a sobriquet his manners seem to have justified. He is to be distinguished from an older English actor, William
Smith
  (d. 1696), the friend of Betterton.


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