Samuel Thomas Russell

In Dover in 1791 he married Ann Mate, whose father was a printer, actor and manager and proprietor of the theatre.

[1] At Margate, where he acted, his father was a member of the company, and was famous for his Jerry Sneak in Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garratt, the traditions of which he had inherited from Thomas Weston, the original exponent.

[2] Russell appeared accordingly at Drury Lane, in September 1795, as Charles Surface in Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Fribble in David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens.

The performance is unchronicled by John Genest, whose first mention of Russell is on 6 October as Humphrey Grizzle in Prince Hoare's Three and the Deuce.

Russell made a success, in May 1796, in an original part unnamed in an anonymous farce called Alive and Merry, unprinted.

Lord Trinket in George Colman's The Jealous Wife and Saville in Thomas King's Will and no Will were given the following season, and he was, in May 1799, the original Sir Charles Careless in First Faults, by Maria Theresa Kemble.

In 1840 he played at Her Majesty's Theatre his great part of Jerry Sneak to William Dowton's Major Sturgeon.