John Bannister

(1760-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bannister, John, 1760-1836 DNB: Bannister, John (1760-1836), actor LBT ID: JoBanni1836 VIAF ID: 40544202 LOC ID: no91013676	B/BAP: 1760-05-12 DIED: 1836-11-07
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic actor whose roles included Tony Lumpkin, Sir Fretful Plagiary, and Sir Anthony Absolute. He was a favorite of Charles Lamb.
REFERENCES TO John Bannister: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [13 December 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 199a Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 5 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 100 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 3 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. V 1798 Found 1: ¶ 23 Ch. XII 1812 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 33 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1806 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 5