HAMBLIN

Thomas Sowerby . b. Pentonville, London 14 May 1800; ballet dancer Adelphi theatre at 6s. a week; first acted at Sadler’s Wells 1819, at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1819 as Truman in George Barn well ; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Hamlet, Oct. 1825; le ee of Bowery theatre, New York, Aug. 1830, theatre burnt 16 Sep. 1836; played at Covent Garden 1836–7; le ee of Bowery 1838, again burnt 1845, le ee again 1847 to death; le ee of Park theatre, New York 1848, theatre burnt 16 Dec. 1848; his chief characters were Hamlet, The Stranger, William Tell, Virgin i us, Rolla and Petruchio. d. of brain fever Broome st. New York 8 Jany. 1853, left 100,000 dollars. Ireland’s New York Stage, i , 459–61 (1866); Applet on’s Cyclop. of American Biog. iii , 55 (1887), portrait .