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See also: English actor, was See also: born in See also: London on the loth of See also: August 1749, the son of a watchmaker
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As a youth, he appeared in the provinces, in minor parts; and at See also: Bath in 1768 he formed a connexion with a Mrs Walmsley, a See also: milliner, who See also: bore him a son, but whom he afterwards deserted
.
His first London appearance was at the Haymarket in 1776 as
Flaw in See also: Samuel Foote's The Cozeners, but when See also: George Colman took over the theatre he was given better parts and became its
leading actor
.
In 1779 he was at Covent Garden, and played there or at the Haymarket until his See also: death on the 31st of See also: October
1790
.
Ascribed to him are The Last See also: Legacy of See also: John Edwin, 178o; Edwin's Jests and Edwin's Pills to Purge Melancholy
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His son, JOHN EDWIN (1768-1805), made a first appearance on the stage at the Haymarket. as Hengo in
See also: Beaumont and See also: Fletcher's Bonduca in 1778, and from that See also: time acted frequently with his See also: father, and managed the private theatricals organized by his intimate friend See also: Lord Barrymore at Wargrave, Berks
.
In 1791 he married See also: Elizabeth Rebecca
See also: Richards, an actress already well known in juvenile parts, and played at the See also: Hay-market and elsewhere thereafter with her
.
He died in See also: Dublin on the 22nd of See also: February 18o5
.
His widow joined the See also: Drury Lane See also: company (then playing, on account of the fire of 1809, at the See also: Lyceum), and took all the leading characters in the comedies of the See also: day
.
She died on the 3rd of August 1854
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