John Hippisley (14 January 1696 – 12 February 1748) was an English comic actor and playwright. He appeared at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden in...
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and Cockermouth Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet (c.1746–1825), English MP for Sudbury John Hippisley (actor), English comic actor and playwright This...
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Jane Green (actress) (redirect from Jane Hippisley)
Jane Hippisley, subsequently Mrs. Green (1719–1791), was a British actress. She was born in 1719. She was the daughter of John Hippisley and his wife...
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In mid-1899, the British inspector of Chinese maritime customs, Alfred Hippisley, visited the United States. In a letter to Rockhill, a friend, he urged...
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own play The Lying Valet. In 1742, Paget played Gripe the miser in John Hippisley and Thomas Chapman's play Scaramouch scapin, or the Old Miser Caught...
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child, Constantino, at their home in the Champs-Élysées. Gustavus Butler Hippisley, a friend of Major Richardson and fellow veteran of the British Legions...
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David Garrick (category Actor-managers)
Plays, Painting and Performance (London, 2023) Batty, Mark (2004), "Hippisley, John (1696–1748)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)...
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Flora, or Hob in the Well, It was, according to John Genest, printed, with songs added by John Hippisley, in 1732 as the Sequel to Flora, and was revived...
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were considered actors along with humans and were even awarded leading roles. A more negative assessment came from Anthony Hippisley-Coxe, who described...
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Anthony Hickox, British film director, producer and screenwriter Michael Hippisley MBE, established the Samaritans in the Scottish prison system Sir David...
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A City Ramble (section Actors)
(Mordecai) Mrs Hunt (Rachael) The revived cast at Covent Garden included: John Hippisley. (Justice Hardhead) Roger Bridgewater. (Ezekiel Prim) William Hallam...
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orientalist Alexander Catcott (1725–1779), geologist and theologian Sir John Coxe Hippisley (1745–1825), politician William Gregor (1761–1817), mineralogist...
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and married in early life a poor actor named Pritchard. As Mrs. Pritchard she acted in 1733, at Fielding and Hippisley's booth, Bartholomew Fair, the part...
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The Wife of Bath (play) (category Plays by John Gay)
Opera, opened at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. The cast featured John Hippisley and Jane Egleton, who has both appeared in The Beggar's Opera. Other...
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Swinburne, ecclesiastical lawyer Charles James Fox, Whig statesman John Hippisley, politician, diplomat Robert Ashley, writer Daniel Burgess, Presbyterian...
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actor John Hippisley, who had created the character of Peachum in the premiere of John Gay's Beggar's Opera. The stage space was so small that actors...
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eight, including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy), 11 Screen Actors Guild Awards (winning 3), 10 Directors Guild of America Awards (winning...
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house. In 1729, a new theatre was opened at Jacob's Well by an actor named John Hippisley, who had created the character of Peachum in the premiere of Gay's...
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1747 John Hippisley proposed the construction of a new theatre and a revised version in 1748 just before his death. The planning was taken over by John Palmer...
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Thomas Mozeen (category 18th-century English male actors)
Humour.' On 21 May 1759, for the benefit of Mozeen, Miss Barton, Miss Hippisley, and others, the 'Heiress, or Antigallican,' the solitary dramatic production...
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14 Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona, Italian cardinal (d. 1747) John Hippisley, English actor and theatre manager (1696-1748) (d. 1748) January 17 Jean de...
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14 Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona, Italian cardinal (d. 1747) John Hippisley, English actor and theatre manager (1696-1748) (d. 1748) January 17 Jean de...
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Miss Penelope Jane Henderson, Secretary, Royal Windsor Horse Show. James Hippisley Kidner, formerly Deputy Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and The...
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Ann, Mrs. Hippisley. For services to Save the Children in Scotland. Marina, Mrs. Hobson, J.P. For services to the community, especially the John Grooms Association...
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