See also:EDWARD See also:ASKEW See also:SOTHERN (1826-1881)
, See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:Liverpool on the 1st of See also:April 1826, the son of a See also:merchant
.
He began acting as an See also:amateur, and in 1849 drifted into a professional engagement with a dramatic See also:company at St Heliers in See also:Jersey, where he appeared as See also:Claude Melnotte in Bulwer See also:Lytton's See also:Lady of See also:Lyons
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Between then and 1858 he played in various companies without particular success, in See also:Birmingham and in See also:America, where he went in 1852
.
On the 12th of May 1858 Tom See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor's Our See also:American See also:Cousin, a See also:play of no See also:special merit, was brought out in New See also:York, with See also:Sothern in the small See also:part of See also:Lord Dundreary, a See also:caricature of an English nobleman
.
He gradually worked up the See also:humour of this part so that it became the central figure of the play
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In 1861, when it was produced at the Haymarket See also:Theatre, in See also:London, he made such a See also:hit that the piece ran for nearly five See also:hundred nights: "Dundreary whiskers " became the See also:fashion, and Dundreary this, that or the other made its See also:appearance on every See also:side
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At various times Sothern revived the See also:character, which retained its popularity in spite of all the extravagances to which he See also:developed its amusing features; and his name will always be famous in connexion with this role
.
In T
.
W
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See also:Robertson's See also:David See also:Garrick (1864) he again had a See also:great success, his acting in the See also:title-part, which he created, being wonderfully effective
.
He won wide popularity also from his See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of Sam Slingsby in See also:Oxenford's See also:Brother Sam (1865)
.
Sothern was a born comedian, and off the See also:stage had a See also:passion for See also:practical joking that amounted almost to a See also:mania
.
His See also:house in See also:Kensington was a resort for See also:people of fashion, and he was as much a favourite in America as in the See also:United See also:Kingdom
.
He died in London on the 21st of See also:January 1881
.
Sothern had three sons, all actors, the second of them, See also:EDWARD H
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SOTHERN (b
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1859), being prominent on the American stage
.
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