Robert Baddeley (actor)

He spent three years following another employer on a Grand Tour, which helped him to develop the facility with languages and accents which was to be a hallmark of his career.

By 1762 he was a full member of the Drury Lane company, and he remained there for the rest of his career, while also playing summer seasons at the Haymarket.

He was a great success in low comedy and servants' parts, and often played comic foreigners such as Canton in The Clandestine Marriage.

A sufferer of epilepsy, he was taken ill on 19 November 1794 while preparing to play Moses in The School for Scandal[3] and he died the following day.

He bequeathed £3 per annum to provide wine and cake in the green room of Drury Lane Theatre on Twelfth Night.