EMERY

Samuel Anderson ( son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822 ). b. Hyde st. Blooms bury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in John Bull ; played at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre 1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original Fouché in Tom Taylor’s Plot and Pa ion at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March 1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep. 1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in Australia 1880–81. d. 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July 1881. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 45–6, portrait ; Theatre n.s. iii , 70–2 (1884); Theatrical Times ii , 57 (1847), portrait ; Touchstone 13 July 1878 p. 3, portrait ; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xv , 464 (1881), portrait .