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Subsequently he became member of a second company, playing in Lincoln, Leicester, Peterborough, and Birmingham, at which last named town he was seen and engaged by Charlton, the manager of the Bath Theatre.

Z.," Simon in the "Rendezvous," Molino in the "Blind Boy," Adam Winterton in "The Iron Chest," Solomon Lob in "Love Laughs at Locksmiths," and Old Philpot in the "Citizen;" in 1819–20 Ratcliffe in the "Heart of Midlothian," First Gravedigger in "Hamlet" to Kean's Hamlet, Slender in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," Dromio of Syracuse, Clod in the "Young Quaker," and in 1820–1 Peter in the "Stranger," Laurence in the "Fate of Calas," Peter Pastoral, and Interpreter in "All's well that ends well."

Here he played his old characters, replaced Liston, the original Dugald Dalgetty, in Pocock's "Montrose, or the Children of the Mist," and was seen as Crabtree in the "School for Scandal," and Filch in the "Beggar's Opera."

He was on 10 February 1836 at Drury Lane, the original Philippe in Lovell's The Provost of Bruges but returned to Covent Garden, where in September 1842 he made a success as a miserly old clerk in Lovell's Love Sacrifice played one of the witches in "Macbeth," was the original Gallop, a trainer, in Mark Lemon's farce the "Turf," and played in Robert Bell's "Mothers and Daughters."

After joining the Kean and Keeley management of the Princess's he was the original Boaz in Douglas Jerrold's "Prisoner of War," first given at Windsor Castle, under Charles Kean's direction, on 24 January 1851; on 6 March was the original Joe Harrup, a toothless old huntsman, in Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," and on 22 November 1852 played "Shallow" in the "Merry Wives of Windsor."