The People - Thomas Hull

Gender
Man
Start
1728 (b.)
End
22 Apr 1808 (d.)
Country of Birth
England
Locality
London
Bio
BD Vol. 8: 32-40
Links
Notes
He was first introduced as "a Gentleman, 1st appearance in any Stage" on CG 17591005 and 17591008 for the role of Elder Wou'dbe in 'The Twin Rivals'

Works (17 Results)

Title Year Type Role
The Comedy of Errors 1623 Mainpiece Author
Timon of Athens 1623 Mainpiece Author
The Parting Lovers [True Blue] 1739 Afterpiece Author
The Absent Man 1764 Afterpiece Author
Pharnaces 1765 Mainpiece Author
The Spanish Lady 1765 Afterpiece Author
All in the Right 1766 Afterpiece Author
The Fairy Favour 1767 Afterpiece Author
The Perplexities 1767 Mainpiece Author
The Royal Merchant 1767 Mainpiece Author
Henry the Second; or The Fall of Rosamond 1773 Mainpiece Author
The Prodigal Son 1773 Mainpiece Author
Edward and Eleanora 1775 Mainpiece Author
Love Finds the Way 1777 Mainpiece Author
Iphigenia; or, The Victim 1778 Mainpiece Author
The Fatal Interview 1782 Mainpiece Author
Disinterested Love 1798 Mainpiece Author

Activities (3 Results)

Theatre Activity
Covent Garden Acting manager, Actor, Singer

Benefits (Author) (7 Results)

Date Theatre Title Mainpiece Title After Piece(s) Door receipts Tickets Total Charges Ticket Count Type
06 Feb 1767 Covent Garden The Perplexities The Fairy Favour, The Gallant Peasants £126 19s Unknown £126 19s £84 Unknown
09 Feb 1767 Covent Garden The Perplexities The Fairy Favour, The Gallant Peasants £137 4s Unknown £137 4s £84 Unknown
16 Dec 1767 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant The Female Archer, The Merry Sailors £126 4s £10 14s £136 18s £84 62
21 Dec 1767 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant The Upholsterer; or, What News?, The Garland, or the Milk Maid's Holiday £136 16s £1 13s £138 9s £84 9
24 Jan 1774 Covent Garden Henry the Second; or The Fall of Rosamond Midas £207 1s 6d Unknown £207 1s 6d £64 Unknown
20 Apr 1774 Covent Garden Henry the Second; or The Fall of Rosamond The Englishman in Paris, The Frolick £115 14s £68 15s £184 9s £64 394
19 Nov 1782 Drury Lane The Fatal Interview Too Civil by Half £100 13s Unknown £100 13s £105 Unknown

Benefits (Employee/Tickets) (36 Results)

Date Theatre Title Mainpiece Title After Piece(s) Door receipts Tickets Total Charges Ticket Count Type
01 May 1760 Covent Garden The Provoked Husband; or, A Journey to London The Jealous Country Farmer Deceived; or, Harlequin a Statue, Fingalian Dance, A Leap through a Wheel of Fireworks and a Hoop of Daggers, The Lamplighters £39 19s £140 6s £180 5s £64 917 Sh
23 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars Thomas and Sally; or, The Sailor's Return, Comic Dance £79 17s 6d £82 7s £162 4s 6d £63 513 Sh
24 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Comedy of Errors Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades, Let Not the Rage, The Taylors Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
26 Apr 1763 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man; or, The Fop's Fortune Thomas and Sally; or, The Sailor's Return, A Briton the Son of a Briton, Comic Dance, Nymphs and Shepherds Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
28 Apr 1764 Covent Garden Comus (1738) The Absent Man, Hornpipe Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown Sh
02 May 1765 Covent Garden King Lear The Spanish Lady, The Jealous Woodcutter Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
26 Apr 1766 Covent Garden Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion All in the Right, The Cries of London, Venetian Gardeners, Rural Love Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
06 May 1767 Covent Garden Double Falsehood; or, The Distressed Lovers Midas, Hornpipe, Wapping Landlady, The Female Archer £93 12s 6d £56 6s £149 18s 6d £63 338
29 Apr 1768 Covent Garden Romeo and Juliet An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked, Highland Reel £72 £55 7s £127 7s £63 340
25 Apr 1769 Covent Garden Cymbeline The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed, The Merry Sailors £89 12s 6d £91 3s £180 15s 6d £63 557
26 Apr 1770 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife The Spanish Lady, The Blackbirds, The Reel £48 17s £121 3s £170 £64 722
24 Apr 1771 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale The Padlock Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
04 May 1772 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale The Upholsterer; or, What News? £65 6s £64 £129 6s £64 386
01 May 1773 Covent Garden Henry the Second; or The Fall of Rosamond The Citizen, The Irish Lilt £114 18s 6d £75 6s £190 4s 6d £64 420
26 Apr 1775 Covent Garden Edward and Eleanora The Druids, Masque Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
22 Apr 1776 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter Prometheus, Triple Harp Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
22 Apr 1785 Covent Garden Hamlet Comus (1772), From Tyrant Laws and Customs Free, Live and Love Unknown Unknown Unknown N/A Unknown
13 May 1786 Covent Garden Timon of Athens Tom Thumb, Masquerade Dance, Leap Year, or A New Way of Wooing £80 10s Unknown £80 10s £105 Unknown
04 May 1787 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem The Poor Soldier, The Indian's Ransom £127 19s £81 12s £209 11s N/A 449
02 May 1788 Covent Garden The Rivals Love and War, Mirth by Moonshine £91 10s £72 15s £164 5s N/A 352
26 May 1789 Covent Garden Such Things Are Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia, Mirth by Moonshine £109 8s 6d £63 8s £172 16s 6d N/A 331
18 May 1790 Covent Garden Such Things Are The Englishman in Paris, The Memorable 13th of September, Or The Defeat of the Spaniards Before Gibraltar £94 17s £73 9s £168 6s N/A 380
31 May 1791 Covent Garden The Midnight Hour The Comedy of Errors, The Jockies, Black-Eyed Susan £93 13s 6d £92 9s £186 2s 6d N/A 486
17 May 1792 Covent Garden The Duenna; or, The Double Elopement The Intrigues of a Morning; or, An Hour in Paris, Divertisement, Wine Cannot Cure the Pain I Endure For My Chloe £149 2s 6d £86 9s £235 11s 6d £105 465
24 May 1793 Covent Garden Henry VIII The Sailor's Festival; or, All Alive at Portsmouth, The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro £108 19s 6d £174 7s 6d £283 7s N/A Unknown Sh
30 May 1794 Covent Garden British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship; or, An Escape from France Cyrus, Sprigs of Laurel £62 12s £145 8s 6d £208 6d N/A 722 Sh
05 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Bank Note; or, Lessons for the Ladies A Divertisement, Ballet, The Irishman's Peep at the Continent, Old Towler, The Storm £85 6d £168 7s 6d £253 8s N/A 805 Sh
24 May 1796 Covent Garden The Earl of Warwick The Lie of the Day; or, A Party at Hampton Court, Sprigs of Laurel, The Waiter, Admiral Benbow, Mad Bess, Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself, The Sportman's Snug Little Cot £85 8s £228 8s £313 16s N/A 1125 Sh
31 May 1797 Covent Garden Cato Cambro-Britons, Animal Magnetism, Together Let Us Range the Fields, Britons Strike Home, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms, Old England Will be England Still, To Arms £117 3s 6d £196 19s 6d £314 3s N/A 963 Sh
30 May 1798 Covent Garden Disinterested Love Starboard Watch, The Highland Reel £58 6s £202 16s 6d £261 2s 6d N/A 986 Sh
05 Jun 1799 Covent Garden The Horse and the Widow Inkle and Yarico, The School for Arrogance, Negro Dance, Young William was a Seaman True, Boxing The Compass, Old Towler £217 13s 6d £130 15s £348 8s 6d N/A 638 Sh
21 May 1800 Covent Garden St David's Day; or, The Honest Welchman Liberal Opinions, Paul and Virginia £160 14s 6d £53 19s 6d £214 14s N/A 265 T
22 May 1801 Covent Garden Unknown Drama The Poor Gentleman, Paul and Virginia £109 15s 6d £85 8s 6d £195 4s N/A 439 T
09 Jun 1804 Covent Garden Speed the Plough The Poor Soldier £48 5s 6d £336 17s £385 2s 6d N/A 1443 T
12 Jun 1805 Covent Garden The School of Reform; or, How to Rule a Husband The Birth-Day £34 14s £455 16s 6d £490 10s 6d N/A 2536 T
02 Jun 1807 Covent Garden Unknown Drama The Way to Get Married, Valentine and Orson £148 9s 6d £266 5s £414 14s 6d N/A Unknown Sh
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Money paid (to theatre) (25 Results)

Date Theatre Amount Notes
29 May 1760 Covent Garden £11 10s 6d To Mr Hull's deficiency 1st instant
05 May 1770 Covent Garden £17 Recd of Mr. Hull the Balance of his Nt. the 26 April last
18 May 1772 Covent Garden 9s 6d Recd of Mr. Hull Do. [the Balance] of his Do. [Nt] the 4th Instant
22 Nov 1782 Drury Lane £4 7s Author of Fatal Interviews Deficiency
03 Jun 1784 Covent Garden £2 11s 6d Rec'd of Mr Hull for his Do. [1/2 Value of Tickets] Do. [the 22d May]
03 Jun 1784 Covent Garden £4 16s 6d Rec'd of Mr Hull for his Do. [1/2 Value of Tickets] Do. [the 29th of May]
02 Jun 1786 Covent Garden £24 10s Recd from Mr Hull his Deffcy 13th May
09 Jun 1788 Covent Garden £13 10s [Reced of] Mr Hull Do. [Benefit Defy]
21 Jun 1790 Covent Garden £10 3s Reced Do. [Benefit Defcy] of Mr Hull
15 Jun 1791 Covent Garden £11 6s 6d Reced of Mr Hull Benefit deffy

Money received (from theatre) (42 Results)

Date Theatre Amount Entry Notes
20 Oct 1759 Covent Garden £5 8d By Mr. Hull 16 Nts. from 24th Sept. 1759 inclusive at 6. 8 [per] Night
04 Nov 1761 Covent Garden £20 Mr. Hull Advanc'd to him
09 Feb 1767 Covent Garden £41 Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of his Night the 6th: Instant
10 Feb 1767 Covent Garden £51 Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of his Night for the Fairy Favour the 9th: Instt.
07 May 1767 Covent Garden £27 6d Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of his Benefit. 6th. Instant
10 Dec 1767 Covent Garden £98 Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of the Theatrical Fund the 9th: Instant
17 Dec 1767 Covent Garden £3 Paid Do: [Mr Hull] for the Extras Charged & allowed again Do: [his] Night
17 Dec 1767 Covent Garden £38 Paid Mr Hull the Balance of his Night of the Royal Merchant the 16th Instant
12 Jan 1768 Covent Garden £52 Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of his 2d Nt: of the Royal Merchant 21st Dec: last
02 May 1768 Covent Garden £2 Paid Mr: Hull the Balance of his Night the 29th April