• William Mountfort (c. 1664 – 10 December 1692), English actor and dramatic writer, was the son of a Staffordshire gentleman. He met his death at the hand...
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  • Mountfort is a surname and may be: Benjamin Mountfort (1825–1898), English-born New Zealand architect Charles Mountfort (1854–1941) New Zealand surveyor...
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  • William Mountfort was an actor and writer. William Mountfort may also refer to: William de Mountfort William Mountfort (MP) (died 1452), MP for Warwickshire...
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  • Susanna Mountfort (1690-1720) was a British stage actress. She was the daughter of the actors William Mountfort and his wife Susanna Mountfort. In 1692...
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  • Sir William Mountfort (died 6 December 1452) was an English MP. He was the second son of Sir Baldwin Mountfort of Coleshill-in-Arden, Warwickshire who...
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  • D'Urfey's Sir Barnaby Whigg. In 1686 she married the actor William Mountfort, and after Mountfort's infamous murder in 1692, she married the actor John Verbruggen...
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    Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825 – 15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of the country's most prominent...
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    1692, the "tendre" felt by both Captain Richard Hill and the actor William Mountfort caused a celebrated tragedy. The jealous Hill and a gang of toughs...
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    actors' company, which opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields with the smash hit of William Congreve's Love For Love in 1695 and continued to successfully challenge...
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    the play of the same name (alluded to). Henry II is a 1692 play by William Mountfort; The Lion in Winter is a 1966 play by James Goldman (alluded to)....
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    the new Sultan of the Maldives as Muhammad Ali IV. November 8 – William Mountfort's play Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond...
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    himself, almost certainly erroneously, to face competition from actor William Mountfort. Mohun and Hill ambushed the actor after a performance and, whilst...
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  • actress Susanna Mountfort, widow of the actor William Mountfort, on 31 January 1694. Adding another possibility for confusion, William Mountfort was famous...
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  • preserve and publish historical documents. December 9 – Playwright William Mountfort is attacked in a London street and stabbed; he dies the next day....
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    of the Mountfort family. In 1460, the manor passed into the possession of Sir Baldwin Mountfort following the death of Sir William Mountfort. Edward...
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  • William de Montfort (also Mountfort) was an English medieval Canon law jurist, singer, dean, and university chancellor. He was apparently the son of Peter...
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    as Wellvile, Joseph Williams as Wilding, John Bowman as Courtall, William Mountfort as Friendall, George Bright as Ruffle, Joseph Harris as Musick Master...
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  • Powell as Ferdinand, William Mountfort as Cesario, John Hodgson as Tachmas, Colley Cibber as Sigismond, John Freeman as Oswell, William Bowen as Fabio and...
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  • Stanley 1428: William Peyto of Chesterton, Warks. 1429: Nicholas Rugeley of Dunton, Warwickshire 1430: Humphrey Stafford 1431: Sir William Mountfort, Kt of Coleshill-in-Arden...
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  • The Successful Strangers (category Plays by William Mountfort)
    English writer William Mountfort. The original Drury Lane cast included Joseph Williams as Don Carlos, George Powell as Antonio, William Mountfort as Silvio...
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  • Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera) William Mountfort – Zelmane Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)...
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  • The Injured Lovers (category Plays by William Mountfort)
    Or, The Ambitious Father is a 1688 tragedy by the English writer William Mountfort. It was premiered by the United Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury...
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    generation of English actresses. During his time, with the exception of William Mountfort, who gained a versatility in terms of portraying roles, most of Betterton's...
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  • English Friar John Dryden Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias Don Sebastian William Mountfort – The Successful Strangers George Powell Alphonso, King of Naples...
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    Greenwich Park (play) (category Plays by William Mountfort)
    Greenwich Park is a 1691 comedy play by the English writer William Mountfort. The original cast included Anthony Leigh as Sir Thomas Reveller, James Nokes...
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  • of the Mountfort family. In 1460, the manor passed into the possession of Sir Baldwin Mountfort following the death of Sir William Mountfort. Edward...
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  • Stanley 1428: William Peyto of Chesterton, Warks. 1429: Nicholas Rugeley of Dunton, Warwickshire 1430: Humphrey Stafford 1431: Sir William Mountfort, Kt of Coleshill-in-Arden...
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  • Paris by Nathaniel Lee (1689) Sancho in The Successful Strangers by William Mountfort (1690) Sir Gentle Golding in Sir Anthony Love by Thomas Southerne...
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  • Henry II (play) (category Plays by William Mountfort)
    The Death Of Rosamond is a 1692 historical play often attributed to William Mountfort but possibly written by John Bancroft. It was first staged at the...
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  • birth Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1700) William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (died 1692) January 10 – Nicholas Culpeper...
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