George Davies Harley

He received acting lessons from John Henderson, and made his first appearance on the stage as Richard III on 20 April 1785 at Norwich.

[1] Becoming known as the "Norwich Roscius", Harley was engaged by Thomas Harris for Covent Garden Theatre, where he appeared as Richard 25 September 1789.

For career reasons he withdrew into the provincial theatres; but returned to Covent Garden, where he remained for four seasons.

He then once more went into the provinces, and played old men in comedy with success at Bristol in 1796–9, and then at Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and elsewhere.

Among his poems the longest are To Night, and A Legacy of Love, to his son aged four, whom he calls George the second, his predecessor being dead.