FRANCIS AICKIN (d. 18o5)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 435
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
FRANCIS AICKIN (d. 18o5)
, Irish actor, first appeared in London in 1765 as Dick Amlet in Vanbrugh's The Confederacy at Drury Lane
.
He acted there, and at Covent Garden, until 1792
.
His repertory consisted of over eighty characters, and among his best parts were the Ghost in Hamlet and Jaques in As You Like It
.
His success in impassioned declamatory roles obtained for him the nickname of " Tyrant."
His younger brother See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
(d
.
1803) was playing leading parts in both comedy and tragedy at the Edinburgh theatre, when he gave offence to his public by his protest against the discharge of a fellow-actor
.
He therefore went to London, and
from 1767 to 'Soo was' a member of the Drury Lane Company and for some years a deputy manager
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He quarrelled with John See also: - PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
, with whom, in 1792, he fought a bloodless duel
.
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