William Dowton

(1764-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dowton, William, 1764-1851 DNB: Dowton, William (1764-1851), actor LBT ID: WiDowto1851 VIAF ID: 28537790 LOC ID: n85388141	B/BAP: 1764-04-25 DIED: 1851-04-19
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic actor who performed Shakespearean roles at Drury Lane Theater, where he made his debut in 1796.
REFERENCES TO William Dowton: Robert Bland to John Herman Merivale, 6 June 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Actors and Actresses Found 1: ¶ 2 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 2 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XI. 1812.