Alexander Rae

(1782-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rae, Alexander, 1782-1820 DNB: Rae, Alexander (1782-1820), actor LBT ID: AlRae1820 VIAF ID: 9465619 LOC ID: no98091404	B/BAP: 1782-05 DIED: 1820-09-08
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English actor who first appeared at Drury Lane in 1812; he became manager upon the death of James Grant Raymond in 1817.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Rae: John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 15 June 1813 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 15 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 25 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 23 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 101 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 12 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 3: 1813-15