WILLIAM MOUNTFORT (c. 1664-1692)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 940
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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 (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
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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