Frederick Vining

[2]: 260  He enjoyed considerable repute in his heyday[3] and was included in a collection of brief biographies of the principal actors and actresses of the British stage published in 1824 by Sherwood, Jones & Co.[2] He was the son of Charles Vining, a silversmith in Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, and was born in London in 1790.

[4] At Bath he appeared in 1821 as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and played during the 1821/22 season, among other roles, one or two original parts, including Tressilian in Kenilworth.

[4] From 1823 he appeared at the Haymarket in London: roles included Young Rapid in A Cure for the Heart Ache, Dick Dowlas in The Heir at Law, Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Charles Franklin—an original part—in Sweethearts and Wives by James Kenney, and Flexible in Kenney's Love, Law, and Physic.

[5] In an obituary published in the Birmingham Daily Gazette he was described as having the skill and gallant bearing which "gave evidence of the good training which characterised the comedian of the old school" which he exhibited up to his last engagement at the Olympic Theatre at the beginning of the 1860s, after which he suffered from reduced mental capacity, being cared for in a private asylum for the last years of his life.

The circumstances were not reported by the press, and are unknown;[7] however, robbery by clutching of the throat was then a widely-feared risk in London.