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JOHN FAWCETT (1768-1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 217 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN FAWCETT (1768-1837)  ,
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English actor and playwright, was born on the 29th of August 1768, the son of an actor of the same name (d . 1793) . At the age of eighteen he ran away from school and appeared at
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Margate as Courtall in The Belle's Stratagem; afterwards he joined Tate Wilkinson's
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company and turned from tragedy to low
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comedy parts . In 1791 he appeared at Covent Garden, and in 1794 at the Haymarket . Colrnan, then manager of that house, wrote a number of parts designed to suit his talents, and two of Fawcett's greatest successes were as Dr . Pangloss in The Heir at Law (1797) and as Dr 011apod in The Poor Gentleman (1798) . He retired from the stage in 1830 .

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