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WEST DIGGES (172o-1786)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEST See also:DIGGES (172o-1786)  , See also:English actor, made his first See also:stage See also:appearance in See also:Dublin in 1749 as Jaffier in See also:Venice Preserved; and both there and in See also:Edinburgh until 1764 he acted in many tragic roles with success . He was the See also:original " See also:young Norval " in See also:Home's See also:Douglas (1756) . His first See also:London appearance was as See also:Cato in the Haymarket in 1777, and he afterwards played See also:Lear, See also:Macbeth, Shylock and See also:Wolsey . In 1881 he returned to Dublin and retired in 1784 .

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