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JOSEPH GRIMALDI (1779–1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH
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GRIMALDI (1779–1837)  , the most celebrated of
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English clowns, was
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born in
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London on the 18th of
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December 1779, the son of an
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Italian actor . When less than two years old he was brought upon the
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stage at
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Drury
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Lane; at the
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age of three he began to appear at
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Sadler's
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Wells; and he did not finally retire until 1828 . As the
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clown of
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pantomime he was considered without an equal, his greatest success being in
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Mother
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Goose, at Covent
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Garden (1806 and often revived) .
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Grimaldi died on the 31st of May 1837 . His
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Memoirs in two volumes (1838) were edited by
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Charles
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Dickens .

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