CHARLES BANNISTER (1738-18o4)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V03,
Page 354
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CHARLES BANNISTER (1738-18o4)
, English actor and singer, was born in Gloucestershire, and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket
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Gifted with a fine bass voice, Bannister acquired a reputation as a singer at Ranelagh and elsewhere, as well as an actor, and was received with such favour that Garrick engaged him for Drury Lane
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He died on the 26th of October 1804
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His son JOHN BANNISTER (1760-1836), born at Deptford on the 12th of May 176o, first studied to be a painter, but soon took to the stage
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His first formal appearance was at the Haymarket in 1778 as Dick in The Apprentice
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The same year at Drury Lane he played in 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)
James Miller's version of Voltaire's Mahomet the part of Zaphna, which he had studied under Garrick
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The Palmira of the cast was Mrs See also: - ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson (" Perdita ")
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Bannister was the best low comedian of his day
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As manager of Drury Lane (1802) he was no less successful
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He retired in 1815 and died on the 7th of November 1836
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He never gave up his taste for painting, and Gainsborough, Morland and Rowlandson were among his friends
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See Adolphus's Memoirs of John Bannister (2 vols., 1838)
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