John Edwin the elder

(1749-1790)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Edwin, John, 1749-1790 DNB: Edwin, John, the elder (1749–1790), actor and singer LBT ID: JoEdwin1790 VIAF ID: 55533963 LOC ID: n83212090	B/BAP: 1749-08-10 DIED: 1790-10-30
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English comic actor who began his career at Manchester and performed at the Haymarket and Covent Garden.
REFERENCES TO John Edwin the elder: Robert Southey, “Memoir: School Recollections,” 10 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: X William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 1: ¶ 21