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WILLIAM ABBOT (1798-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ABBOT (1798-1843)  , See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:Chelsea, and made his first See also:appearance on the See also:stage at See also:Bath in 18o6, and his first See also:London appearance in 18o8 . At Covent See also:Garden in 1813, in See also:light See also:comedy and See also:melodrama, he made his first decided success.' He was Pylades to See also:Macready's See also:Orestes in See also:Ambrose See also:Philips's Distressed See also:Mother when Macready made his first appearance at that See also:theatre (1816) . He created the parts of Appius See also:Claudius in See also:Sheridan See also:Knowles's Virginius (182o) and of Modus in his Hunchback (1832) . In 1827 he organized the See also:company, including Macready and See also:Miss See also:Smithson, which acted See also:Shakespeare in See also:Paris . On his return to London he played Romeo to Fanny See also:Kemble's Juliet (1830) . Two of See also:Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of See also:Frederick the See also:Great (1817) and See also:Swedish Patriotism (1819), were produced at Covent Garden . He died in poverty at See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland .

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