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WILLIAM MOUNTFORT (c. 1664-1692)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 940 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:MOUNTFORT (c. 1664-1692)  , See also:English actor and dramatic writer, was the son of a See also:Staffordshire See also:gentleman . His first See also:stage See also:appearance was with the See also:Dorset See also:Garden See also:company about 1678, and by 1682 he was taking important parts, usually those of the See also:fine gentleman . See also:Mountfort wrote a number of plays, wholly or in See also:part, and many prologues and epilogues . He married, in 1686, Susanna See also:Percival (see See also:VERBRUGGEN, MRS), the actress . Owing to See also:jealousy of Mrs See also:Bracegirdle's supposed See also:interest in Mountfort, See also:Captain See also:Richard See also:Hill, an adventurer, who had annoyed her with persistent attentions, accompanied by See also:Charles, fifth See also:Baron See also:Mohun, murdered Mountfort in See also:Howard See also:Street, Strand, on the 9th of See also:December 1692 . Hill made his See also:escape . See also:Lord Mohun was tried by his peers and acquitted by a See also:vote of 69 to 14 .

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