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    Robert William Elliston (7 April 1774 – 7 July 1831) was an English actor and theatre manager. He was born in London, the son of a watchmaker. He was...
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  • Elliston can refer to: Places Elliston, Indiana, U.S. Elliston, Montana, U.S. Elliston, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Elliston Ridge Air Station, radar...
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    Venetian Outlaw is an 1805 play by the British writer and actor Robert William Elliston. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 26...
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    Robert Elliston MA (1870 – 23 October 1943) was a journalist, vicar, and canon of Ripon Cathedral. Two of his brothers were William Rowley Elliston and...
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    been published the year before. The cast included Henry Siddons, Robert William Elliston, George Frederick Cooke and Jane Powell while the incidental music...
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  • Wroughton as Sir Rowland English, William Powell as Sir Edward Melville, Robert William Elliston as Young Melville, William Barrymore as Sir Harry Lovelace...
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  • William R. Elliston (1815–1870) was an American planter, slaveholder and politician. He served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from...
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    1804. The original cast included Robert Palmer as Major Corslet, William Chapman as Mr. Balance, Robert William Elliston as Edmond Rigid, Vincent De Camp...
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    Abraham Lincoln. Famous actors who débuted at the theatre included Robert William Elliston (1774–1831) and John Liston (1776–1846). The first Hay Market theatre...
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    William Rowley Elliston OBE, (1 February 1869 – 12 February 1954), was a British judge and Liberal Party politician. Elliston was born in Manor House...
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  • Guinea? Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Menuisier de Livonie Robert William Elliston – The Venetian Outlaw Elizabeth Inchbald – To Marry or Not to Marry...
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  • Drury Lane. The original Drury Lane cast included Robert William Elliston as Count Egmont, James William Wallack as Theodore, John Braham as Everard, Vincent...
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    cast included William Dowton as Sir William Freeman, Vincent De Camp as Young Freeman, Robert William Elliston as Henry Mortimer, William Barrymore as...
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  • by Elizabeth Billington's husband (George Raymond, Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian, John Mortimer, London 1844, p. 425) and had his own...
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  • included Robert William Elliston as Anson, William Barrymore as Colonel Anson, Henry Siddons as Frederick, George Bartley as Charles, William Dowton as...
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    included William Barrymore as Hugh de Tracy, John Bannister as Robert, Henry Siddons as Bertrand, William Penley as Walter, Robert William Elliston as Fitzharding...
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    Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs, was brought out by manager Robert William Elliston at the Surrey Theatre. Britain at the time was recovering from...
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    Lambeth. The melodrama in two acts, produced by Robert William Elliston, was penned by Douglas William Jerrold, and the main character was played by TP...
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    opened a theatre in Peter Street, Dublin. In 1809 he was engaged by Robert William Elliston as stage manager of the Surrey Theatre, where he remained a favourite...
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    featured Robert William Elliston as Lord Belmour, Richard Wroughton as Sir Felix Mordant, William Barrymore as Sir Edward Epworth, William Dowton as...
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    It was later revived at Drury Lane, and "with great success" by Robert William Elliston. The piece was first printed in 1806. Some sources suggest it was...
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  • George Elliston (1883 - October 7, 1946) was an American journalist. George Elliston was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. She graduated from Covington...
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    actor-manager Robert William Elliston intended to stage it he caused his publisher, John Murray, to obtain an injunction to prevent him. Elliston nevertheless...
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    Surrey Theatre, Robert William Elliston. She performed in London, England for the first time in 1810, in a burletta alongside Elliston. That same year...
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  • was persuaded by John Harley and actor-managers Stephen Kemble & Robert William Elliston to pursue a career in playwriting. Planché pounced at their advice...
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  • Joseph Grimaldi (1827); at the Surrey first with Robert William Elliston, and then with Charles Elliston and D. W. Osbaldiston, and at the Old City Theatre...
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  • Twiselton Elliston (c. 1801 – 1864), was an English musical composer and inventor. Elliston was born in or about 1801, the second son of Robert William Elliston...
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    London, an institution associated also with the dramatic names of Robert William Elliston and Charles Mathews. At the age of 18, in consequence of the death...
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    The following appeared in the original cast for the play: Sir Rowland by William Barrymore Lord Alford by Charles Dignum Walter (the Carpenter) by John...
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    Knight, William G. A Major London 'Minor': The Surry Theatre 1805-1865. London: STR, 1997. Raymond, George. Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian...
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