Spranger Barry
Spranger Barry (23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777) was an Irish actor.
Life
He was born in
Skinner's Row, Dublin, the son of a silversmith, to whose business he was brought up. He took over the business but was not successful.[1]
His first appearance on the stage was at the
Mrs Cibber, his Juliet. Both houses now at once put on Romeo and Juliet for a series of rival performances, and Barry's Romeo was preferred by the critics to Garrick's.[1]
In 1758 Barry opened the
Haymarket Theatre, then under the management of Foote. As his second wife, he married in 1768 the actress Mrs Dancer (1734–1801), and he and Mrs Barry played under Garrick's management, Barry appearing in 1767, after ten years absence from the London stage, in Othello, his greatest part. In 1774 they both moved to Covent Garden, where Barry remained until his death.[citation needed
]
His son Thomas Barry became an actor at the Theatre in Cork in 1761. In 1766 he left Thomas in charge of the Theatre, but his management was heavily attacked in the press. The following year Thomas appeared alongside his father at the Haymarket in London, before his sudden death brought an end to career. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
References
- A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/spranger-ann-barry
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