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

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