Thomas Abthorpe Cooper
Thomas Abthorpe Cooper (born
Cooper was born in Harrow on the Hill, London, the son of a physician with the East India Company. He received a good education, and, on the death of his father, was adopted by Thomas Holcroft and William Godwin.[1]
His first appearance on the stage was with Stephen Kemble's company in Edinburgh, and later he acted at Covent Garden, London, with great success as Hamlet and Macbeth. In December, 1796, he made his first appearance in Philadelphia as Macbeth at the Chestnut Street Theatre, and in August of the following year played in the Greenwich Street Theatre, New York, as Pierre in Venice Preserved. He returned to England in 1802, and for several years held a foremost rank on the English stage.[1]
In 1804, he returned to New York and soon afterward, for a long time, became lessee of the
Notes
- ^ a b c Ireland, Joseph Norton (1888). A Memoir of the Professional Life of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper. The Dunlap Society. p. 1. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
References
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.