James Harvey D'Egville

[1] James' father Pierre D'Egville was ballet master at Drury Lane and Sadler's Wells Theatres.

[1] Back in England, in June 1786, he danced in The Nosegay at the Haymarket Theatre with Maria Theresa Kemble in the presence of the Royal Family.

[4] In 1827, the London Magazine published an article decrying the fact that D'Egville had won a libel suit against The Spirit of the Age newspaper for writing about his alleged association with the assassin of Princess Lambelle while he was in France in 1792.

It annoyed the magazine immensely that simply writing that someone had said something libellous was grounds to win damages against a periodical.

They wrote of him, "the gentleman who deserves the thanks of all the saints on earth, for having cured the young men of the present day of the sinful taste for ballets.