William Charles Macready

(1793-1873)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 NRA: Macready William Charles (1793-1873) Actor DNB: Macready, William Charles (1793-1873), actor and theatre manager LBT ID: WiMacre1873 VIAF ID: 5743196 LOC ID: no91005705	B/BAP: 1793-03-03 DIED: 1873-04-27
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English tragic actor and manager, the son of William Macready (1755-1829).
REFERENCES TO William Charles Macready: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 7 May 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n3 John Murray to Lord Byron, 13 May 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 25 Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, August 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [January 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Herman Merivale to Francis Hodgson, [May 1836] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 18 November 1838 in 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 4 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 8 The Literary Fund Found 1: ¶ 1 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XV Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIX Found 1: ¶ 3 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 VI Found 1: ¶ 5 William Harness to A. G. K. L'Estrange, 13 June 1867 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Dickens Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 8 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XX. 1830-36. 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: ¶ 27 Chapter XII. Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 2: ¶ 48 ¶ 56 Chapter IX. 1851. Found 2: ¶ 3-6 ¶ 8 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 30 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 6 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter V: 1817 Found 1: ¶ n3