He likely made his stage debut in a performance of The Recruiting Officer at the Queen's Theatre in Haymarket, London in 1707.
[1] Over the following decade and a half he also appeared frequently at Drury Lane and the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, and was considered a potential natural successor to Colley Cibber in fop roles.
[2] In 1717 he and Theophilus Keene took over the management of Lincoln's Inn from John Rich for a period.
Between 1715 and 1718 he also authored severals plays, mainly farces, beginning with an afterpiece The Slip.
Increasingly in ill health from consumption he made his final appearance in a revival of Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune on 9 January 1722 appearing alongside his wife and father in the cast.