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WILLIAM SMITH (c. 1730-1819)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SMITH (c. 1730-1819)  , See also:English actor, the son of a See also:city See also:tea See also:merchant, was educated at See also:Eton and went up to See also:Cam-See also:bridge, but his See also:wild pranks soon ended his See also:college career and brought him back to See also:London . His first See also:stage See also:appearance was in 1753 at Covent See also:Garden, where he remained for twenty years, playing important parts . In 1774 he was at See also:Drury See also:Lane under See also:Garrick's management . His forte was See also:gay See also:comedy, and he was the See also:original, indeed unrivalled, See also:Charles See also:Surface . It was in this See also:part that he made his farewell appearance in 1788 . He died on the 13th of See also:September 1819 . His sporting tastes and social connexions—he married the. See also:sister of a peer—led to his being called " See also:Gentleman See also:Smith," a See also:sobriquet his See also:manners seem to have justified . He is to be distinguished from an older English actor, See also:William Smith (d . 1696), the friend of See also:Betterton .

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