He was baptised at St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, Shropshire on 27 September 1782, son of William and Ann Bellamy.
In 1810 the Suffolk Chronicle hired a corrosive new critic, up to which time the Norwich Company had been used to receiving a favourable press.
For the summer season 1810 the ‘Ipswich Theatre’ was showing She Stoops to Conquer and the Chronicle reported ‘The performance possessed all the worst defects of a provincial exhibition’ and actor Frederick Vining was rapped for his ‘schoolboy recitation’ with the managers accused of having dredged up a miserable orchestra.
His critical spleen unsettled some of the actors and in May 1815 Vining left for Covent Garden and Bellamy followed shortly afterwards but returned as manager of the Norwich circuit three years later.
[2] The epitaph describes him as "Distinguished for tenderness of heart variety of talents extensive attainments and perfect probity as a companion he was generally welcome while his firmness of character rendered him inestimable as a friend".