William Barrymore

(1759-1830)

LBT ID: WiBarry1830	B/BAP: 1759 DIED: 1830-07-07
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (October 1830) 375; Philip H. Highfill, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers (1973) 1:355
Originally Blewit; he was an English actor at Drury Lane and the Haymarket; he was the father of the pantomime actor William Barrymore (d. 1845).
REFERENCES TO William Barrymore: William Godwin to John Philip Kemble, [November? 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 5 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1800 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806