Thomas Caulfield (actor)

Thomas Caulfield (1766–1815) was a British stage actor who after a period in London's West End spent the later part of his career in the United States.

[1] After appearing in the provinces, notably at Bath and York, he made his debut for the Drury Lane company in 1791 in The Cave of Trophonius by Prince Hoare.

Amongst his roles was that of Uter in Vortigern and Rowena (1796) by William Henry Ireland, a play fraudently claimed to be by Shakespeare.

[3] In 1807 Caulfield accepted an offer from John Bernard to appear at the Federal Street Theatre in Boston, and left Maria behind in London.

He ultimately died at the age of forty nine of overindulgence, although there are conflicting sources for his place of death as either Cincinnati or Kentucky.