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DOGGETT (or DOGGET), THOMAS (d. 1721)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOGGETT (or DOGGET), See also:THOMAS (d. 1721)  , See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:Dublin, and made his first See also:appearance in See also:London in 1691 as Nincompoop in D'Urfey's, Love for See also:Money . In this See also:part, and as See also:Solon in the same author's See also:Marriage-hater matched, he gained the favour of the public . He followed See also:Betterton to See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields, creating the part of See also:Ben, especially written for him, in See also:Congreve's Love for Love, with which the See also:theatre opened (1695); and next See also:year played See also:Young Hobb in his own The See also:Country See also:Wake . He was associated with See also:Cibber and others in the management of the Haymarket and See also:Drury See also:Lane, and he continued to See also:play See also:comedy parts at the former until his retirement in 1713 . See also:Doggett is highly spoken of by his contemporaries, both as an actor and as a See also:man, and is frequently referred to in The Taller and Spectator . It was he who in 1715 founded the See also:prize of " Doggett's Coat and Badge " in See also:honour of the See also:house of See also:Hanover, " in See also:commemoration of his See also:Majesty See also:King See also:George's happy See also:Accession to the Brittish See also:Throne." The prize was a red coat with a large See also:silver badge on the See also:arm, bearing the See also:white See also:horse of Hanover, and the See also:race had to be rowed annually on the 1st of See also:August on the See also:Thames, by six young watermen who were not to have exceeded the See also:time of their See also:apprenticeship by twelve months . Although the first contest took See also:place in 1715, the names of the winners have only been preserved since 1791 . The race is still rowed each year, but under modified conditions . See See also:Thomas Doggett, Deceased (London, 1908) .

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