Richard Suett

(1755-1805)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Suett, Richard, 1755-1805 DNB: Suett, Richard (bap. 1755, d. 1805), actor and singer LBT ID: RiSuett1805 VIAF ID: 13677012 LOC ID: n83008311	B/BAP: 1755-07-29 DIED: 1805-07-06
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English comic actor and singer who made his Drury Lane début in 1780; Charles Lamb was fond of him.
REFERENCES TO Richard Suett: William Hazlitt to William Hazlitt sen.; [July] 1790 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [13 December 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 199a Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 4: ¶ 8 ¶ n1 ¶ 46 ¶ n1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 18 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Chap. I 1778-1811 Ch. XII 1812 Found 1: ¶ 33 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Verse 1: p. 199a