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    William Evans Burton (24 September 1804 – 10 February 1860) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and publisher who relocated to the United...
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  • translator of Achilles Tatius William Burton (antiquary, died 1657) (1609–1657), English schoolmaster and antiquary William Evans Burton (1804–1860), British actor...
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    publication published in Philadelphia from 1837 to 1840. Its founder was William Evans Burton, an English-born immigrant to the United States who also managed...
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    mainly for The Wounded Cavalier (1855). Burton's grandfather was a printer, and his father was William Evans Burton, a comic actor and playwright who found...
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  • 1967 book of the same name by William Bradford Huie. It was directed by Terence Young and starred Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana...
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    noting the novel's gruesome details, a review in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (possibly William Evans Burton himself) criticized its borrowed descriptions...
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    in September 1837 by William Evans Burton. It has been suggested that this story may have been known to Poe, who worked for Burton in 1839. The story was...
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    United States in theatre troupes led by the impresarios William Evans Burton and James William Wallack, in addition to appearing on Broadway with some...
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    Opera House ceased and the theater was leased to William Evans Burton. It was rechristened the Burton's Theater and became a performance venue for plays...
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  • insane, at High Beach in Essex. September – In Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia), William Evans Burton publishes an early example of the detective...
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    adaptation by John Brougham that premiered at Burton's Theatre in July 1848 with William Evans Burton as Captain Cuttle Television: 1969 miniseries –...
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    Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire...
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  • He also appeared with circuses in other American cities. In 1840, William Evans Burton leased the new National Theatre in Philadelphia, and Foster assisted...
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    Richard Burton CBE (/ˈbɜːrtən/; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone...
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  • January 29 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German poet (born 1769) February 9 – William Evans Burton, English dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804) February...
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    was moved in 1898. Theodosia Bartow Burr, first wife of Aaron Burr William Evans Burton, English actor, playwright, theater manager and publisher Thomas...
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    January – Sir Thomas Brisbane, astronomer (born 1773) 9 February – William Evans Burton, dramatist, theatre manager and publisher (born 1804) 17 March –...
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    The Man of the Crowd (category Works originally published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine)
    of Atkinson's Casket and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The latter was the final issue of that periodical. William Evans Burton sold his periodical to George...
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    life during the 1858 theatre season. The actors John Brougham and William Evans Burton toured to the theatre in February 1858 where they performed a highly...
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  • [3]. Retrieved 22 September 2013. William Evans Burton, "Scissibles. From the Blank Book of a Bibliographer", Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia)...
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    University Press, 1998: 351. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9 Gentleman's Magazine. William Evans Burton (editor). Chas. Alexander. 1838. pp. 187 ff.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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    Knapp (May 4, 1832). Memoir of William Shaler. G.P. Morris. p. 345. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) William Evans Burton (1838). Gentleman's Magazine...
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    Burton Abbey at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as...
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    again. This house was reopened Sept. 8, 1856 as Burton's New Theatre, managed by William Evans Burton, with The Rivals. In 1858, Joseph Jefferson performed...
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    Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy...
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    sketches for The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (1858), a book edited by William Evans Burton, Vanity Fair (1859–63), Mrs. Grundy (1869), Punchline (1870), and...
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  • Richard Burton's Hamlet is a common name for both the Broadway production of William Shakespeare's tragedy that played from April 9 to August 8, 1964 at...
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  • American crime drama film written and directed by John Evans and starring Tony Burton, William Smith, and Damu King, and John Alderman. Roy, the leader...
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    the United States for a three month season at Burton's Theatre in New York. However, William Evans Burton broke the contract after a week, and although...
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    c1753-1800 William Worthington 1760- bought by Bass 1927 Thomas Morecroft Thomas Dicken William Bass 1777- bought by Coors 2000 Henry Evans 1790 - settled...
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