After playing in Guernsey and Plymouth, he made, 9 November 1802, under Dimond, his first appearance at Bath in Munden's part of Lazarillo in Jephson's farce of ‘Two Strings to your Bow.’ Gradus in ‘Who's the Dupe?’ Walter in ‘Children in the Wood,’ Edgar in ‘King Lear,’ Sir Luke Tremor in ‘Such things are,’ and Sir Bashful in the ‘Way to keep him,’ were acted during the season, in which he acquired popularity.

Bath proved once more the portal to London, and Lovegrove appeared 3 October 1810 at the Lyceum, the temporary home of the Drury Lane company, as Lord Ogleby in the ‘Clandestine Marriage.’ Job Thornberry in ‘John Bull’ and many favourite characters followed, and he played original parts in dramas by Dimond, Masters, Millingen, Arnold, and other writers.

He took a benefit 15 June 1814, enacting Wilford in the ‘Iron Chest,’ and playing in a piece entitled ‘Cheating,’ by a friend named Parry.

Soon afterwards he broke a blood-vessel and was ill for many months, not reappearing until 21 June 1815, when for the first time, for his benefit, he played Sir Peter Teazle.

Mathews speaks of him as ‘an admirable actor, quite in the style of the old school.’ A prudent and a reserved man, he mixed little in the pleasures of his fellows, and though much respected had few intimacies.

George Raymond, the biographer of Elliston, tells how Lovegrove once rushed to the Lyceum at midnight, covered with brickdust and mortar, and in a state of frenzy, stating that at the end of Dyott Street, Bloomsbury, he had been seized and pinioned by two stalwart women, forced into a house and thrust into a room, where a third woman was dying from the result of violence.

After his recovery he took refuge in customary taciturnity, and no elucidation was afforded of the story (see Memoirs of Elliston, concluding ser.

A plate of Lovegrove as Captain Rattan was in the ‘Theatrical Inquisitor’ for August 1816, and one in private dress in the ‘Monthly Mirror,’ new ser.