Thomas Betterton

(1635-1710)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710 DNB: Betterton, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1710), actor and theatre manager LBT ID: ThBette1710 VIAF ID: 29800138 LOC ID: n78087629	B/BAP: 1635-08 DIED: 1710-04-28
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English actor who performed in plays by Congreve, Vanbrugh and Nicholas Rowe, and supplied Rowe with anecdotes of Shakespeare.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Betterton: Lord Byron to John Murray, 19 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ n2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ n2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 16 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. X 1807 Found 1: ¶ 10 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 17