COMPTON

Henry , stage name of Charles Mackenzie ( 6 child of John Mackenzie of Hunting don ). b. Hunting don 22 March 1805; clerk in office of Mr. Symonds of Alderman bury, London, cloth merchant; acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in The Waterman ; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum 1838–9, at Prince ’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at Strand 1849–50, at Hay market 1853–70, at Globe 1871, at Lyceum 1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chip pen dale company; last appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the best Shakespeare an clown of his time. d. 12 Stanford road, Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. Memoir of H. Compton edited by C. and E. Compton 1879, portrait ; Actors by daylight i , 289 (1838), portrait ; Tallis’s Drawing room table book , part 11 , portrait as Launce ; The Players ii , 25 (1860), portrait ; Theatrical times ii , 1 (1847), portrait .