Edmund Glover

He wrote two leather clad diaries in copper plate writing, covering ten years of his daily life from Thursday 9 May 1850 to his death on 15 August 1860.

He describes a visit by steam train to witness a national public hanging of a notorious murderer at the time.

Towards the end of his life, his diary writings deteriorate right up until his final hours, when the doctor calls and he succumbs to TB.

His painting of The Forge by Moonlight, (which is mentioned on its completion in the diaries) is in private hands, along with his ring enclosing a lock of his hair.

He was a man of diversified talents, a sound, though not a brilliant actor, a good dancer, fencer, and pantomimist, and the possessor of some skill in painting.

Emboldened by this success he took a large hall in West Nile Street, Glasgow, which he opened as the Prince's Theatre.

On 17 March 1856 he began to alternate with Powrie the parts of Macbeth and Macduff, on 24 February 1857 played the brothers Dei Franchi to the Baron Giordine of Henry Irving, and on his last appearance at the Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 25 May 1859, was, at his own desire, Triplet in Masks and Faces.

[4] Edmund Glover's repertoire focussed on the great classical plays, pantomimes, and operas (although he noted these "do not make so much profit because of the larger expenditure".)