Francis Godolphin Waldron

Waldron became a member of David Garrick's company at Drury Lane, and is heard of on 21 October 1769, when he played a part in A New Way to Pay Old Debts.

He made little progress as an actor, but Garrick gave him charge of the theatrical fund which he established in 1766, and he was at various times manager of the Windsor, Richmond, and other country theatres.

For his benefit on 21 September were produced Love and Madness, adapted by him from Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, and Tis a wise Child knows its own Father, a three-act comedy also by him.

[1] In 1783 Waldron published An Attempt to continue and complete the justly admired Pastoral of the Sad Shepherd of Ben Jonson.

Heigho for a Husband, 1794, was a rearrangement of the Imitation; it was more successful than the previous piece, was played at the Haymarket on 14 July 1794, and was revived at Drury Lane in 1802.

Its appearance had been preceded on 2 December 1793 at the Haymarket by the Prodigal, 1794, an alteration of The Fatal Extravagance of Aaron Hill, with a happy ending.

The Miller's Maid, a comic opera in two acts, songs only printed with the cast, was performed at the Haymarket on 25 August 1804, with music by John Davy.

He followed this up with the Shakspearean Miscellany (London, 1802, four parts), a second collection of scarce tracts, mainly from manuscripts in his possession, with notes by himself and portraits of actors, poems (then unpublished) by John Donne and Richard Corbet, and other works.