Samuel Anderson Emery

He was educated at Bridport Hall, Edmonton, under W. Fitch, both a schoolmaster and the lessee of the City Theatre, Milton Street.

On leaving school he was placed with his uncle, John Thompson, an Irish provision dealer, and became also clerk to a stockbroker, and subsequently to a jeweller and goldsmith.

[1] In May 1834 Emery appeared at the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham Street (then known as the Fitzroy), in his father's character of Dan in John Bull.

He worked at Kingston upon Hull for Downe, the manager of the York circuit, went in 1835 to Edinburgh under Murray, and played in some smaller Scottish houses.

[1] As Giles in The Miller's Maid, and Lovegold in The Miser, Downe made, 18 April 1843, at the Lyceum Theatre, his first appearance in London.