In 1763, at Drury Lane in London, he played the role of Falstaff, for which he became best known as an actor, his authorial pseudonym serving also as his stage name.
Invited to Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1762, he retained a connection to it for the rest of his life.
He is famous within sporting circles for his Cricket: An Heroic Poem (1744), whose line "The strokes re-echo o'er the spacious ground" has been quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Altham, the poem "should be in every cricket lover's library" and "his description of the game goes with a rare swing" [2] Love was also the brother of George Dance the Younger, who took on the same occupation as his father.
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