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JOHN BROUGHAM (1814-188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BROUGHAM (1814-188o)  , See also:British actor, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the 9th of May 1814, and was educated for a surgeon . Owing to See also:family misfortunes he was thrown upon his own re-See also:sources and made his first See also:appearance on the See also:London See also:stage in 183o, at the See also:Tottenham See also:Street See also:theatre in Tom and See also:Jerry, in which he played six characters . In 1831 he was a member of Madame See also:Vestris's See also:company, and wrote his,. first See also:play, a See also:burlesque . He remained with Madame Vestris as See also:long as she and See also:Charles See also:Mathews retained Covent See also:Garden, and he collaborated with See also:Dion See also:Boucicault in See also:writing London Assurance, Dazzle being one of his best parts . In 1840 he managed the See also:Lyceum theatre, for which he wrote several See also:light burlesques, but in 1842 he moved to the See also:United States, where he became a member of W . E . See also:Burton's company, for which he wrote several comedies . Later he was the manager of Niblo's Garden, and in 185o opened See also:Brougham's Lyceum, which, like his next See also:speculation, the See also:lease of the Bowery theatre, was not financially a success . He was later connected with See also:Wallack's and See also:Daly's theatres, and wrote plays for both . In 18bo he returned to London, where he adapted or wrote several plays, including The See also:Duke's See also:Motto for See also:Fechter . After the See also:Civil See also:War he returned to New See also:York . Brougham's theatre was opened in 1869 with his See also:comedy Better See also:Late than Never, but this managerial experience was also unfortunate, and he took to playing with various stock companies .

His last appearance was in 1879 as O'Reilly, the detective, in Boucicault's Rescued, and he died in New York on the 7th of See also:

June 1880 . Brougham was the author of nearly See also:loo plays, most, of them now forgotten . He was the founder of the See also:Lotus See also:Club in New York, and for a See also:time its See also:president . He also edited there in 1852 a comic See also:paper called The See also:Lantern, and published two collections of See also:miscellaneous writings, A See also:Basket of Chips and The Bunsby Papers . Brougham is said to have been the See also:original of Harry Lorrequer in Charles See also:Lever's novel . He was twice married, in 1838 to Emma See also:Williams (d . 1865), and in 1844 to Mrs Annette See also:Hawley (d . 187o), See also:bath. actresses .

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