He first appears in the cast of Colley Cibber's "Love's Last Shift," produced by the associated companies of Drury Lane and Dorset Garden, 1696.
After another brief migration to the Haymarket, followed by a new return to Drury Lane, he quitted definitely the latter theatre, 1715–16, for Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he remained until 1726.
[1] He was the original Clincher in Farquhar's The Constant Couple (1699), Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), Twang the turn-key in A City Ramble and Sir Francis Courtall in Tavener's The Artful Wife (1717).
Played Jemmy Twitcher in premiere of The Beggar's Opera 1728 at John Rich's Theatre Royal Lincoln's Inn Fields His death is said to have taken place on 18 June 1733, a date which has been accepted by most subsequent writers.
He had a benefit, however, at Covent Garden on 6 January 1739, described on the bills as 'his first appearance on the stage for six years,' when he played Dominic in Dryden's "Spanish Fryar."