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CHARLES HOLLAND (1733–1769)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES HOLLAND (1733–1769)  ,
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English actor, was born in
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Chiswick, the son of a baker . He made his first appearance on the stage in the title role of Oroonoko at Drury Lane in 1755, John Palmer, Richard Yates and Mrs Cibber being in the cast . He played under Garrick, and was the
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original Florizel in the latter's adaptation of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale . Garrick thought highly of him, and wrote a eulogistic epitaph for his monument in Chiswick church . His
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nephew, Charles Holland (1768–1849) was also an actor, who played with Mrs Siddons and Kean .

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