The People - William Macready

Gender
Man
Start
1755 (b.)
End
11 Apr 1829 (d.)
Country of Birth
Ireland
Locality
Dublin
Bio
BD Vol. 10: 39-44
Links

Works (2 Results)

Title Year Type Role
The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African 1792 Afterpiece Author
The Bank Note; or, Lessons for the Ladies 1795 Mainpiece Author

Activities (1 Results)

Theatre Activity
Covent Garden Actor

Benefits (Employee/Tickets) (10 Results)

Date Theatre Title Mainpiece Title After Piece(s) Door receipts Tickets Total Charges Ticket Count Type
23 May 1788 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife Linco's Travels, Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia £58 10s £109 5s £167 15s Unknown 627 Sh
17 Jun 1789 Covent Garden Animal Magnetism Such Things Have Been, The Midnight Hour, Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to London £37 9s 6d £140 4s £177 13s 6d Unknown 893 Sh
10 Jun 1790 Covent Garden Nootka Sound; or, Britain Prepared The Comedy of Errors, Harlequin's Chaplet £95 11s £163 2s £258 13s Unknown 1143 Sh
10 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer The Wives Revenged, Tippo Saib; or, British Valour in India, Stand to Your Guns My Hearts of Oak, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms £35 3s £211 1s £246 4s Unknown 1548 Sh
30 May 1792 Covent Garden Oroonoko The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African, Negro Dance, If You Travel the Wide World All Over: A Planxty, Descriptive of Ireland, Jeu D'Esprit; or, Jerry Sneak's Intended Law Suit with the Major, My Little Pig Lays Without any Straw, The Group of Lovers; Or, Beauty At Her Levee £90 10s £235 16s £326 6s £105 1678 Sh
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 Unknown Unknown Sh
05 Jun 1794 Covent Garden The Widow of Malabar The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro, The Farmer £65 15s £190 1s £255 16s Unknown 991 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 Unknown 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 Unknown 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 Unknown 963 Sh
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Money paid (to theatre) (11 Results)

Date Theatre Amount Notes
29 Jun 1789 Covent Garden £23 5s Recd of Mr Macready Benefit defcy last year
30 Jun 1790 Covent Garden £17 2s Reced of Mr Macready Benefit Balce last yr
23 Jun 1792 Covent Garden £10 6s [Defficient last year] Macready
17 Jun 1794 Covent Garden £21 Recd of Mr Macready Do. [Benefit Deficiency last Season]
21 Jun 1794 Covent Garden £21 Recd of Mr Macready [?] Do [half Value of Tickets]
24 Nov 1794 Covent Garden £2 2s Recd ofMessrs Bowden, Macready, Middleton, Fawcet, Wallis, Cornellies & Hill for Stamps for Articles
24 Jun 1795 Covent Garden £27 11s 10d Recd of Mr Macready Do. [Benefit deficiency last Season]
06 Aug 1795 Covent Garden £26 5s Recd of Mr Macready in part of Benefit deficiency
14 Jun 1796 Covent Garden £1 4s 9d Recd of Me Macready a part left unto and Do. [Benefit defiy Season 179/5]
14 Jul 1796 Covent Garden £21 Recd of Mr Macready Benefit Deficiency in part